Team Six moved through the forests of the Land of Fire towards their destination. They'd already been traveling for five days, and expected to arrive at the outpost in a few minutes. Yugao's head snapped up as a red flare arched through the sky, "A distress signal from the outpost! We're going into a combat zone!"
"A good thing it was us then," Shino said, "Out of all the Genin teams I'm aware of, only Team Guy would be better suited as they're more experienced."
"We'll do what we can," Hinata replied, Byakugan activating without a single hand sign, "I see twenty men dressed like bandits and three Nuke-nin. All the bandits have Genin level Chakra, the others are Two Chunin and one Jonin level."
"Village?" Yūgao asked.
"The Jonin is from Ishigakure, the Chunin are from Amegakure," Hinata replied.
"Naruto, your clones are to swarm the bandits, while the three of you take on the Chunin. Leave the Jonin to me," Yūgao ordered as she drew her blade, "Don't capture the bandits, just take them out. We don't want to risk them escaping and distracting us. If some escape back to their camp then let the clones handle it."
"Yes Sensei!" The three Genin replied, Naruto creating seventy shadow clones, and each one drawing their wakizashi or katana. Team Six burst into the clearing where the outpost was, the Naruto's quickly swarming the bandits like a hive of pissed off fire ants, the bandits screaming in at first shock and pain, then fear as the Naruto Clones then doubled their numbers.
"Ha!" One of the ex-Ame Chunin laughed. He was rather muscular with his outfit consisting of a pitch black bodysuit, silver rebreather and a large two handed axe in his hands, "Not often you can see a Genin do that! Looks like we got a little Genin jinchūriki!" He jumped back avoiding Naruto's slash and used the shaft of the axe to block Hinata's kick. Naruto was slightly nervous about his secret being blurted out like that but neither Hinata or Shino even seemed to notice the word.
"Bet Ame will let us back in, if we bring them a gift like that," The other Ame Nukenin replied. Unlike his comrade he wore a tan jacket similar to the one, a Konoha Shinobi they'd seen at a dango shop wore, over a shinobi chain shirt and wearing dark brown jeans with brown combat boots. He had a kusari-gama in his hand, the blade splitting into two thin blades, while the weight had small spikes on it. He was focusing on trying to use his twin sickle two slice off one of Shino's arms
The Ishi Nuke-nin cocked his head as he dropped a beaten and bloody Konoha Chunin to the ground, "I suppose…" He then saw the others with Naruto, "A Hyuga and Aburame? Try to take them alive. Why settle for Ame when I bet that, new village Oto would greatly reward us for them!" He then replaced himself with a broken barrel to dodge Yūgao's attempt to bisected him, "And Konoha's Violet Reaper! I've been wanting to test myself against you," He chuckled darkly as he drew his own katana, the metal permanently stained red from how much blood he'd spilt. He wore a dark gray one piece suit under a dark red vest, and shorts, the arms and legs taped down with dark red bandages, and light but durable combat boots.
"Zishi Kuritatsu, the Vampiric Demon of Stone," Yūgao growled, "Just another rabid beast from that village who'll be put down."
Zishi's face twisted into a completely unhinged smile, showing that as his title suggested he had sharpened canines, "Then by all means Reaper! COME AND TRY!" The two Jonin's blades met in a shower of sparks.
A couple of the bandits tried to flee with several Naruto's quickly incapacitating the distracted bandits, "Looks like the little Genin can fight!" The Axe wielding nuke-nin chuckled as he moved his axe to attack Naruto and Hinata faster than he should with a weapon that heavy, "Well I suppose I should at least introduce myself. I am Omoi Gekiryū and my brother is Hidoi Gekiryū," Omoi then slammed his axe into the ground forcing Hinata to jump back lest she be cut in half.
"Raging Storm!" Naruto called as he rushed in, his blade moving so quickly it was a blur, but Omoi lept back, "Gonna have to be faster than that before you even think of keeping up with a Chunin!" Shino's fight was going along the same lines, where he was acting solely on defense. Hidori was too fast to hit, but luckily his attack's weren't too fast for Shino to dodge, unfortunately Hidori was also sparking with Lightning Chakra to keep Shino's Kikaichu off him.
"This is rather frustrating," Shino said calmly, dodging yet another slice from the kama.
"Tough luck brat," Hidori sneered, "You're the one with the shity luck that you ran right to us!"
"I can been seen like that, yes," Shino agreed during a one handed backflip to dodge the spiked weight.
Zishi's and Yūgao's fight was little more than a blur to any onlooker, the only sign there was a fight was the brief clang of steel on steel and occasional shower of sparks as their blades met.
Hinata leaned back to the point her head was nearly perpendicular to her legs, showing off her training of channeling Water Chakra to her muscles, and spat a Water Bullet at a Hidori, but the man brought his kama around and sliced the Jutsu in half making the water fall to the ground before it got anywhere close to him, "Gonna have to to better then something that obvious!" Hidori cackled.
"Team! Weights off!" Yūgao ordered getting confused looks from the Nuke-Nin.
The Genin leapt back, each one pulling a leather bracelet off that had been hidden under their sleeves, and quickly stored them in a seal on their belts, before rocketing back into the battle twice as fast as they had previously, "What the?!" Omoi gasped as Hinata slammed her knee into his gut sending ripples of chakra out damaging his core muscles, "GHAAA! Get off you little bitch!" He tried to grab her but Hinata had already leapt off, and shot her arms forward, wires shooting out of her gloves and dancing along the large man's arms shutting down some Tenketsu. Naruto hadn't stood idle and had used the Wind Cutter Jutsu to sharpen his blade before cutting the shaft of Omoi's axe as close to the axe head as he could, making the it fall to the ground now useless.
"You little shit!" Omoi growled, tossing the wooden shaft to the side before he jumped back and blitzed through hand signs, "Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet!" Omoi scowled, the speed of the Jutsu forming was far slower than it should have due to all his closed Tenketsu.
"Lightning Release: Lightning Bullet!" Hinata countered while Naruto threw a couple bo shrunken, the thin metal needles practically merging with the lightning bullets and the combined attack meeting Omoi's Jutsu just before it finished forming causing it to detonate from the sudden influx of foreign Chakra. Omoi was twitching from the electrocution but he wasn't down yet. Forcing himself to look at the two Genin, his eyes went wide as Hinata said, "Lightning Release: High Voltage Bullet!" A single large and powerful bullet shot out of Hinata's mouth and directly into Omoi's chest making him scream in pain before collapsing unconscious.
Hidoi wasn't able to help as Shino had pulled out a whip, and used it to somehow cut the chain of Hidori's weapon in half right as Hidori threw out the spiked weight. Shino tilted his head to the side and the weight flew past and crashed into a tree, "What the hell?!" Hidori gasped.
"It is unwise to underestimate an Uzumaki's seals," Shino replied before releasing a flurry of strikes with his whip that strangely gleamed silver for a moment and several cuts appeared over the Nuke-Nin's body, "Or the results of our training."
"An Uzumaki?!" Hidori gasped, as he pushed past the pain and rushed at Shino, using his sickles to deflect a couple whip strikes, "No way. All Uzumaki have red hair! Like those two bitches back at the camp."
"Shut the fuck up Hidori!" Zishi growled, from where his blade was locked against Yūgao's, "Or do you want to be my snack once this is done?!"
"So other Uzumaki survived? Good to know," Yūgao smirked, "And from what little I know of your bloodline, your power boost from draining my comrades blood is going to fade in a couple moments."
"Don't underestimate me you bitch!" Zishi roared as he jumped back, pulling a vial of blood from a hidden seal which he quickly gulped dowd, his Chakra flaring up for a moment. Zishi rushed forward, the edge of his sword growing a rough coating of diamond like ridges, each one incredibly sharp, "DIE!"
Yūgao smirked before she released her own restraints, though unlike the ones her Genin had, Yūgao's could be released simply by focusing her Chakra correctly. Yūgao then vanished, making Zishi stumble forward slightly from the force of his downard attack, his eyes going wide moments before his head was removed from his shoulders, his last look of shock never leaving his face.
"Boss!" Hidori gasped. He then scowled and threw down a flash bang and retreated while everyone was distracted.
Once everyone could see Yūgao scowled slightly but went to check and confirm that luckily her comrades were alive. Badly beaten and near the cusp of being unable to be healed but alive. After putting them in stasis scrolls, she turned and looked at Shino, "One of my Kikaichu is on the target, and I can track the pheromones."
She nodded, "Naruto I know you don't want to show it off yet but…"
"On it," He replied, pulling out a scroll, quickly wrote down that the outpost had been attacked and by whom. Once done he bit his thumb making it bleed before going through hand signs, "Summoning Jutsu!" In a puff of smoke a small purple serpent-like being with feathery wings and reptilian face appeared, its two arms ending in three fingered claws.
"How can I assist?" The small being said as it looked up at Naruto.
"Koumori, please take this to the Hokage," Naruto said, handing the small being the letter, "As quickly as you can please."
"This as well," Yūgao said as she handed over the stasis scroll with the injured Konoha shinobi, "These three need to get to the hospital asap."
"Will do!" The being said and vanished.
Naruto stood up, "What now Sensei?"
"We go after Hidori," She replied, "There are two Uzumaki at their camp. We're going not only to take out this Nuke-Nin but also save your family," The four then turned and dashed into the woods after the fleeing Nuke-Nin, while Naruto's clones kept the few captured bandits in check.
Hiruzen was working on paperwork before there was a puff of smoke and a small being appeared. One that startled him so much he dropped his pen, "Sorry about that," The small creature said, "Naruto has a message for you. And his Sensei also gave me this stasis scroll. I don't know what happened but she said these three need to get to the hospital asap."
"No need to apologize," Hiruzen said as he took the message while an Anbu in a bear mask appeared and took the stasis scroll heading to the shinobi hospital, "It has just been many years since I have seen you Koumori. I wasn't sure if Naruto had signed his family's Summon Contract yet," Opening the scroll Hiruzen quickly read it, "Lizard," An Anbu phased out of the wall, "Send a squad of Anbu to the outpost that Team Six went to. It was attacked and needs to be repaired and staffed. Make sure Tenzo is on the squad. I will send replacements to man the outpost soon," The Anbu vanished as Hiruzen wondered if the Uzumaki Luck with C-Ranks was rearing its ugly head. As he went back to work, he wondered what else this mission would reveal… and if any future C-Ranks Naruto went on would rival the madness that some of Kushina's missions had brought.
Team Six rushed through the forest and were soon upon the bandit camp, where Hidori had what few minions left scrambling to pack as much as they could before abandoning the place. Shino withdrew a blowpipe and a silvery Kikaichu climbed in before Shino brought the pipe to his lips, took aim at the only bandit not scrambling around as he seemed to be guarding a large tent and with a soft noise shot the Kikaichu at the bandit, it gaining a slight sheen mid flight before going right through the bandit's neck. As the bandit went down clutching at the wound, the four Konoha Shinobi burst out of the tree's Shino's arms now coated in a green chitinous armor, and Naruto's blade now coated with Water Chakra while two wires extended from each of Hinata's gloves. The camp quickly fell to the onslaught.
"Naruto and I will check the guarded tent," Yūgao said once all the bandits and Hidori were captured or killed, "Hinata, Shino start looking through everything you can find. See if the Nuke-Nin were working for anyone."
"Yes Sensei!" The two said and split up, Hinata's Byakugan still active, and Shino's Kikaichu aiding his search.
Naruto and his Sensei paused before the tent with Naruto taking a short breath before pushing the tent flap to the side. Inside were two red haired girls tied up and gagged, the younger one trying to hide behind the older one. Yūgao stood to the side as she was curious how Naruto would handle it. Naruto slowly approached, "Don't worry, those assholes are dead. I'm Naruto Uzumaki," Here the two girls' eyes went wide but the older one also had a questioning look in her eyes, "Yeah. No idea why my hair's blond. My mother was Kushina Uzumaki," Naruto explained as he cut the two free.
"Ku…Kushina?" The younger girl coughed, throat a bit dry from not having water for a couple days. Naruto unsealed a bottle of water and gave it to her, "Mother said she was the Head of the Clan. We would have left Kusa to join Konoha but they wouldn't let us…"
"Then those bastards worked her to death," The older girl growled eyes blazing, "If you're our new Clan Head you better not take that lying down!"
Naruto's eyes narrowed, "Trust me. I won't. I might not be able to do anything since I'm still a Genin, but… I bet the Hokage could," A gleam appeared in his eyes, one that both female Uzumaki recognised. That was the look of an Uzumaki who was planning something that would give others a major headache, "The Old Man does owe me at least one favor for lying to me for years."
"Fucking hell! You've got some kind of weight over the Hokage?!" The older girl laughed, "Looks like I made the right choice leaving that Bastard Orochimaru's forces!"
"You'll have to explain that later," Yūgao said sternly.
"Yeah yeah," The teen said, waving a nonchalant hand, "Already planning on it, so cool your tits."
"Tayuya!" The girl around Naruto's age gasped.
"Chill out Karin," Tayuya replied as she got up and stretched now that feeling had returned to her limbs, "That's tame compared to what I told that fatass Jirobo everytime he said something that pissed me off…. Which was every time he opened his mouth."
Naruto snorted, "I can't wait to introduce you to Sakura, Sasuke and Neji. I'll have to get a betting pool up just for which one loses their temper first," Yūgao face palmed at that.
"They that bad?" Tayuya smirked, "Make sure I get a cut of the profits!"
Yūgao shook her head with an amused smile. She was glad her student had found family and they seemed to be bonding well. Karin then got to her feet and stretched, Naruto's and Yūgao's eyes locking on the many bite marks on her arms. Tayuya noticed it and scowled, "Yeah. That's the reason Karin's mom was worked to death and that bastard Orochimaru was planning to recruit Karin here."
"When someone injured bites me, they're healed," Karin explained, "Mom had the same ability, but if too many people use this ability before we can recover, our life force will be drained instead of our Chakra."
Tayuya scowled, "The fucking assholes in Kusa litterally saw Karin and her mother as nothing more than tools, at worst, slaves at best!"
Yūgao's eyes narrowed to slits. Just the fact Kusa didn't tell Konoha there were Uzumaki there, broke the treaty the two villages had, but working an Uzumaki to death like that… "Oh I am SO setting the Old man on them," Naruto growled his eyes flashing red as even the Kitsune was pissed, "And informing him that Kusa now owes the Uzumaki Clan a Blood Debt!"
Yūgao's, Karin's and Tayuya's eyes went wide. Blood Debts between Shinobi was a big deal due to not only how rare they were but also the fact that entire wars had been started over someone ignoring a Blood Debt. Seeing the shocked expressions Naruto smirked, "What? Yūgao-Sensei told me I was the Clan Heir and I had access to my mom's books and scrolled on politics and the various treaties the Uzumaki had. I spammed Shadow Clones every night for a couple weeks till I memorized most of it. Which was both boring as fuck on top of being a pain in the ass by the way!"
Tayuya snorted, "Oh I just wish I could see the looks on those asshole's faces when they learn that they owe a Blood Debt to a Genin!" She then let out cackles that made Yūgao realize this girl would get along with Anko Miterashi once Konoha's Snake Mistress calmed down to listen to the Uzumaki's story… and she didn't know if that was a good or bad thing.
Hinata then called out "Senesi! I found something you should see."
Yūgao and the three Uzumaki then left the tent, with Hinata handing a scroll to Yūgao, "I'm pretty sure that was in Zishi's tent… It wasn't a pretty sight in there."
"I bet and I'm sorry you had to see whatever was in there," Yūgao said as she looked over the scroll. A frown appeared on her face, "So that's why Zishi wanted to join Oto instead. Orochimaru's in charge of it, and was promising Zishi all the prey the man could want if he helped Orochimaru…"
"Sounds like something that snake bastard would do," Tayuya scoffed, "Doesn't mean he'll follow his side of the deal."
"What did he promise you?" Yūgao asked.
"That he wouldn't target any other Uzumaki," Tayuya scowled, "I knew his reputation and figured by offering myself up for his experiments he'd leave any other members of my family alone. The moment he set his eyes on Karin due to her healing ability, I left… though I did make sure to leave a… parting gift."
"And that would be?" Shino asked as he adjusted his glasses.
"As many fucking explosion tags I could t get my hands on going off, mixed with letting my summons run around the base in a blind rampage," Tayuya smirked, "The Doki are incredibly difficult to defeat due to how damn resilient they are. Down side they're only able to be controlled by music played by their summoner."
"So if you simply summon them and leave they are completely uncontrollable," Shino stated, "Clever."
"Thanks," Tayuya smirked though it quickly changed to a scowl, "Though my flutes broken so I couldn't even use them to hold off those Ame fuckers without the risk of them turning on me and Karin. I'm most likely just going to replace that contract. The Doki are useful but with the asshole that is hindsight at work far too much of a double edged sword."
"Naruto have your clones seal up as much of what Shino and Hinata found as possible while the six of us return to the outpost and do what we can to get it back in working order," Yūgao ordered, "Karin, Tauya you two don't have do help us repair the place but it would be appreciated."
Tayuya rolled a shoulder, "Eh. Might as well. Might help my muscles feel less stiff."
"I'll help too," Karin said, "I don't want to be the only one doing nothing and feel useless."
After making a dozen clones which quickly went to work Team Six along with Tayuya and Karin walked back to the outpost. Along the way Tayuya glanced at Yūgao, "Guessing you're the one who put that fuckwad Zishi down?" Getting a nod, Tayuya smirked, "Wish I was there to see it. Please tell me he had an appropriate 'oh shit' face?"
Hinata giggled, "He did. Zishi had just downed a vial of blood for some reason and charged at Sensei only for her to vanish before decapitating him."
Tayuya burst out laughing, "Oh I really WISH I'd seen that! The creepy bastard kept making comments at what our blood would taste like. And that was some of the tamer shit he said."
With the six of them working together they were able to do some minor repairs to the outpost, Naruto sending out more clones to keep watch so they'd have a warning if they had any more unfriendly days later a group of six Anbu turned up to take over and repair the outpost, until a new group of Chunin could take over.
Once the group returned to Konoha and gave their report along with everything they'd found at the Nuke-Nin's camp save for a Summoning Contract Hinata was allowed to keep. When they got to the part about Karin though Hiruzin sighed, "Thank you for your hard work everyone, but as Karin is a Kusa Shinobi…"
"Don't pull that crap Old Man," Naruto growled, "The Uzumaki Clan will NOT allow another of our ranks being worked to death by Kusa draining one of our family's life force until they died by being treated as a slave," Hiruzen blanched. Slavery was illegal in the Land of Fire and Naruto was right. As Clan Heir he had a right to demand Karin's protection, "Kusa also broke the Treaty with both Konoha and Uzushio by not only not telling Konoha about any Uzumaki refugee, but also by killing an Uzumaki in their care. As such when you contact them about this, make sure to let them know that the Uzumaki Clan Heir demands a Blood Debt from them."
Hiruzen visibly blanched and went pale at that. He hadn't heard of a Shinobi Clan calling for a Blood Debt since before the Second Shinobi War. Yūgao kept her face blank, Hinata and Karin looked a little uneasy, Shino had his face hidden so was impossible to read but the low buzzing coming from him was a sigh of his own unease at the situation, Tayuya had a vicious smirk at the thought of the bastards who killed a member of her family having Karma come and visit and Naruto… Naruto stood there, eyes locked on Hiruzen practically daring the old man to deny something that was his right as Clan Heir.
"I… I understand," Hiruzen said, unable to hide his surprise or worry, "I will be sure to add that in my letter… which will be sent directly to the Kusa Daimyo. I believe the current one was an acquaintance of your grandfather's when he was Clan Head, but I can't promise anything."
"As long as the message is made crystal clear," Naruto stated.
Hiruzen then turned to the last member of the group, "Now what is your story young lady"
"In short I made a deal with your traitorous bastard of a student in an attempt to keep him away from any other Uzumaki," Tayuya said, her disdain for the Snake Sannin clear as the morning sun on a cloudless day, "He broke his end of the deal by planning to get Karin into his ranks. So I blew the base I was in charge of the fuck up along with releasing three hard as fuck to kill berserkers. Ask me anything you want on his plans, bases, forces and the like and I'll tell you everything I can."
"I… I see" Hiruzen said. Out of everything he was expecting her to say that was not it, "I'll have you talk to Konoha's head of T&I and our Jonin Commander."
"Had a feeling that would be the case," Tayuya shrugged, "Here's something you might want to hear now. The Snake Bastard has improved his Cursed Seal's formula. There's now a second stage to it that physically alters the user but you have to go through a ritual that has the person doing it basically having to die before being revived. Trust me it was not fun to go through."
Hiruzen raised an eyebrow, "Did he? A shame all his talents are being used for selfish desire instead of helping others. Perhaps with a more refined seal, Konoha's Seal Master can find a way to remove it."
"I fucking hope so," Tayuya exclaimed, "I want this thing off of me!"
Author's Notes:
From what I could find Zishi Kuriatsu doesn't translate to anything, if anyone knows Japanese better than I do, is that the case? I don't want to name an OC and it comes out as something insulting or a racial slur.
For the two Chunin, Omoi Gekiryū name means 'Massive Torrent' and 'Hidoi Gekiryū' is Cruel Torrent.
Yes there is both a Village of Rock aka Iwagakure, and Village of Stones aka Ishigakure… confusing but according to the wiki Ishigakure is known for and I quote 'several terrorists with kekkei genkai hail from this village.' so adding one more to that list isn't too far fetched.
Yup! Karin and Tayua are now going to be Konoha Shinobi.
