Chapter 56: Chapter 2: A Past Skirmish
Naruto could only smirk to himself as the door to his interdimensional operating room disappeared. He had not expected to see his half-sister so soon he had, but he was honestly glad he had since he had planted the seeds of doubt in her mind about their shared father. While it may be true that she would just push what he said to her aside and forget about it, but he knew that there would always be that small inkling of a doubt and it would begin to haunt her in time. But those were thoughts for later since he had to give his friend and girlfriend a quick checkup to make sure they were okay.
Haku had a few bruises, but he had a crème that eliminated them easily enough. He had worked on the formula for quite some time since he had so many himself from all his medical training as well as the experiments he ran on himself. He was lucky that he got the power that he had from what he learned was cursed fruit since the experiments he did to himself would have killed him multiple times over if a normal doctor had done them. So through much trial and error he made this crème that could completely heal any and all bruising within moments of applying it. Once applied, Naruto kissed her on the cheek tenderly, which caused her to blush a bit before she grabbed his head and moved it into position so that she was able to kiss him on the lips.
As she did this, Zabuza began to silently growl as he saw this. Haku was, even though he would never admit this to anyone on the simple fact that he had a reputation as a scary ass sword using shinobi to maintain and any form of lovey dovey kind of crap would all but ruin if not completely shatter that image, his adopted daughter in all but name. He had plans to make it official when he was able to, but as any father would he was fairly picky about whom his daughter dated. Now while he had planned to make Naruto fight him, or any other boy for that matter, for the privilege to date Haku so as to prove that they were strong enough to protect her, he was never able to since when he had objected to their relationship Naruto had not taken his interference well. Naruto had used his power to decapitate him and literally, not metaphorically, but literally shoved his head up his ass and left it there for a bit.
Haku had laughed herself to literal tears as she saw her father figure running around like a headless chicken as he tried to make sense of just what in the hell was happening to him since it was honestly the funniest thing she had ever seen in her entire life. Naruto laughed as well as he left the man like that for about twenty minutes before he reversed the damage done. Zabuza looked at Naruto in utter fear after he calmed down. To make a long story short, Zabuza never voiced his opinion about their relationship again after that since he never wanted that to happen to him again.
Zabuza's wounds were a bit more extreme since he had a few broken ribs that needed to be fixed. Sure they would heal naturally on their own, but with his power he was able to precisely cut open his chest and pulled out the broken ribs. Even though this was not the first time they had been under the knife, for Zabuza at least since Haku never sustained a wound that needed such a procedure since most of what she got was a few stabs which Naruto stitched up and used medical chakra to eliminate any scarring so there was no indication that the wound had been there. But even though they had seen this before, it was still fairly shocking to say the least since it was not natural. But then again if you think about it, neither is spitting out entire tidal waves nor conjuring ice like Haku could.
Naruto took the several ribs that needed fixing and used his wires to cut them into pieces. Once in pieces he doused them in a calcium heavy paste he used to repair bones and reassembled them back to that they once were before he used chakra to make them whole once again. Once fully formed, Naruto then stabbed them back into their proper place and sewed the wound shut as well as using his salve to eliminate the scars. Zabuza remembered the first time Naruto operated on him since he had so many scars that Naruto had simply eliminated quite easily.
"Okay," said Naruto as he took his gloves off and placed them in a container with a strong disinfecting solution to clean them off. He put them in there for a minute before he took them back out and put them back on. He was a surgeon after all so he did keep his workplace as well as his equipment clean and sanitized for future use. It was one of the first things that Faust had taught him and the lesson stuck fairly easily. The operation room was fairly large, four times bigger than a standard hospital, with two side rooms with their own doors connecting them to the main one. The main room had the operating table as well as the tools he needed as well as various medical equipment to assist in surgery. One of the doors was a thick metallic one, this one led into the freezer where he stored all the blood he had collected to be used for transfusions, all sorted by type of course. The other one was simply wooden, and this one led into his personal laboratory, where he performed as well as documented his successful and failed experiments. This room was just as big as the operating room but was more cluttered with various tubes and jars all over. "Now that you are all checked out, shall we head back out?"
"So enlighten me as to where exactly we are heading out to exactly," asked Zabuza as he stood up and stretched to loosen his muscles up a bit. Apparently getting cut open like he was stiffened the muscles, so he needed to loosen up.
"Ah yes," said Naruto as he put his hands behind his back and pulled out two of the four scrolls he was gifted by Koyuki not too long ago. "While I was doing my own mission that I was hired to do, I gained favor with the newly instated Daimyo of the now named Spring Country."
"Where is Spring Country," asked Zabuza with a raised eyebrow, or at least raised area where the eyebrow was usually located since he didn't have any to speak of.
"Ah yes," said Naruto with a chuckle, "good story, long one actually, but a machine was built to eliminate the snow."
"I thought you said it was a long story."
"Oh it is," said Naruto as he pulled out his cane and bopped Zabuza on the top of the head with it. Zabuza rubbed the top of his head as he growled about being treated like a kid there. "But I just wanted to simplify it on the off chance you didn't want me to explain it fully."
"I'm actually curious," said Haku as she pulled out a chair and sat upon it. "Would it explain how exactly you managed to acquire two fully functional Sharingan?"
"Wait," said Zabuza as he held up his hand to stop them from going further with the story, "you have Sharingan now?"
"That I do," said Naruto with a smirk as his eyes changed to show that he did indeed have them. "So are you interested in my story now?"
"Very much so," said Zabuza as he leaned his blade up against the wall and sat down himself, "cause from what I heard there are only two Uchiha left in the world with access to such eyes, as well as Kakashi who has one, but he is still alive and you have two so that eliminates him, and that Uchiha brat is still alive as well, so that leave only one person… So explain exactly how the hell you managed to kill Itachi Uchiha?"
"With pleasure," said Naruto with a grin as he began to recount his story…
(Snow Country- 1 week earlier)
Naruto was standing guard on the ship that housed him as well as a film crew and the very person he had been hired to protect. She had been a handful at first when they had first met, since she had tried to run away from them multiple times, but Naruto had simply been there to cut her off every time that she tried to flee. In the end Koyuki had given up and began to become pissed that she wasn't able to escape him.
He invited her to a nearby bar, where he bought drinks for the both of them. Once she began to drink, Koyuki was more open about her situation and explained that why she didn't want to go back home. She had lost her father when her uncle had him murdered so as to take control of the country, and she had escaped with the help of shinobi that had been hired to get her out of the country to safety and had become an actress over the years. She didn't want to go back since she was afraid that she would suffer the same fate as her father if she went back.
Naruto told her about his own past since they were in the mood to talk openly. He explained how he had been born into nothing, yet he was truly happy since he had his mother in his life to help cope with the cruelty of the world, but he had lost her when he was five and suffered from bullying as well as ridicule twice as much as before when she was still alive, and to make it worse was the fact that there was no one else to help him get over it. He mentioned that the reason he did as he did by helping people was so that no one else had to feel that sort of pain. He even mentioned that if he was able to, that he would sacrifice his power, all that he owned and become poor as he was in his youth once more if it would bring her back. But that was not possible, so he made his mother proud by helping others as he did.
Koyuki took his words to heart, and agreed that she needed to go back and help those who needed that, but she was still afraid of her uncle since he had so many people under his employ that would kill her without remorse on his order. Naruto simply smiled at her and patted her on the shoulder as he stated that that was the exact reason why he was there, since having someone of his skills would be more than enough. They had one more drink before they went, this one they had with the bartender though, since Naruto insisted on it, and once done Naruto paid the bill and they left.
What Naruto didn't tell either of them was that he secretly poisoned the bartender's drink before he drank it. The poison was slow, but lethal since it was a special one he had made and as such he was the only one with the antidote to it. The reason for this was the fact that Naruto was easily aware of the fact that the man had been secretly hired by Doto to poison her. Naruto had been easily aware of the fact since he tasted it when he drunk it. He spiked her drink with the proper antidote so that they could drink in peace since it did them good in the end. And as they left to head back towards the rest of their group, Naruto was clearly aware of the pair of men quietly following them wearing black robes with red clouds on them…
So here they were now, as Koyuki slept in her room so that she would be refreshed for the morning shoot. Sure they were heading back to the palace so that she could reclaim her rightful place as the Daimyo of the country, but they were still shooting a movie as they made their way there. Naruto stood guard in front of her door as he had a little black book of his out and was writing in it. He had two, since one was for writing down his ideas for further use since it was easy to forget things, and the second one was his appointment book since he was requested by plenty of people. The problem with that was that he needed to gather various materials so as to treat people. His powers alone could not heal, but it allowed him to get to the affected areas easily so that he could heal them. He still needed the proper materials, Lucky for him, he had people he got his materials from and paid plenty for their best, which they gladly gave him since he was willing to pay top dollar for them.
Koyuki as well as her manager had been worried about him since he was keeping himself awake with no sleep, but Naruto showed them a pill he made that canceled out the negative effects of lack of sleep. He made it since there were those days where he wanted to finish his research, but drowsiness set in and he had to stop, but not by choice. So as Koyuki slept peacefully since she felt safe with Naruto guarding her, he finished up what he was drawing and closed his book before storing it away for later. He pulled out a special seal that he formed with ink mixed with his own blood and used several of them to seal the door he was guarding shut. While he may know how to make a few powerful seals, he was regretfully nowhere near as good at it as those from the Uzumaki clan were and currently are, but he made due with the few he did know. Once in place, he walked over to the edge of the boat and saw the film crew finishing up their preparations for the morning shoot. Naruto smiled since these people were dedicated to their work since there was an actual threat of being attacked by enemy shinobi and yet they still did their job.
Naruto pulled out his cane and began to walk down the cold shore to his destination. He twirled it as he walked and whistled a tune as he did. It took about ten minutes to reach where he was going, and as he did he saw the small boat that had been tailing them for the past couple of days. Naruto used his foot to kick around the snow until he found a rock. He picked it up and tossed it in his hands a few times before he tossed it towards the only window on the ship.
"And there goes our deposit," said a voice behind Naruto. He turned around and saw two figures standing there behind a tree. One of them was a fairly tall man of fair complexion. He had onyx eyes, under which were long, pronounced tear-troughs. He had jet-black hair that was pulled back in a low ponytail and his face was framed with center-parted bangs that extended to his chin. He wore the standard Akatsuki cloak that was black with red clouds and a slashed Konoha forehead protector to symbolize his broken ties with the village. The cloak's high collar obscured his ponytail.
The second man was a very tall, muscular shinobi, and was the taller than the first man. He had a distinctive shark-like appearance, complete with pale, green skin. He had small, round, white eyes, 3 sets of curved facial markings under his eyes, gills on his shoulders, and sharp triangular teeth.
"Just out of personal curiosity," said Naruto as he placed his cane on his shoulder since he didn't feel any killing intent from them, which was why he wanted to know why they were following him and his group. He was sure that they were not here for the princess, so that simply raised more questions for him. "How much did you pay to rent that boat?"
"Too much," said the shark-like man with a growl as he remembered the negotiations, "Since I'm fairly certain we were swindled by that man."
"Yeah," said Naruto, "and that is the reason I don't rent things. I buy so I don't get swindled and can use said thing as much as I want."
"We are getting off track Kisame," said the dark haired man.
"And you are," asked Naruto with a raised brow.
"I am Itachi Uchiha," said the now named Shinobi.
"The infamous Uchiha from Konoha who killed all his clan except for his brother?"
"The same," said Itachi with a quick nod.
"So what brings the infamous Itachi to follow me all the way out here to freeze in the snow?" asked Naruto since he was still curious as to what the hell was going on but was unable to figure it out. "Do you need medical treatment of any sort? Since if that is the case then we can discuss price. But be warned that all prices are set and are completely nonnegotiable."
"That is not the reason that we are here," said Itachi as he held up a hand to stop the conversation, "we are here on the orders of our leader to recruit you into our organization."
"Which is," asked Naruto since he was still in the dark about it.
"The Akatsuki."
"Ah," said Naruto since he had heard about them as he traveled about. He knew that they were mercenaries of sorts since they were S Ranked shinobi who worked for the highest bidder. "I see."
"So will you accept our invitation," asked Itachi in a monotone voice.
"No," said Naruto simply as he shook his head.
"Any particular reason as to why you don't wish to join us?"
"Because I am not in need to hide like those in your organization." Said Naruto simply, "since you are all S Ranked missing Nin and I am nothing more than a well-known surgeon. I have no need to hide since I answer to no one nor is there a price on my head. Plus the fact that by staying independent I keep all the money I earn for myself instead of having to share it with the group."
"Okay you little shit," said Kisame as he prepared his blade in preparation for a fight. To be honest he was hoping that there was one since the adrenaline would warm up his body since the cold played hell with his blood. "Let me put this in a way that you will understand. Either you work for us or else your career as a doctor ends today where you stand."
"So you have resorted to threatening me now," said Naruto with a sinister grin on his face. Itachi felt a bit unsettled as he saw this, but Kisame only felt his adrenaline begin to rise up more. "That is a bad idea in so many ways."
"Do you really believe you have the ability to take on two S rank shinobi by yourself," asked Itachi in an emotionless voice as he activated his Sharingan. He had been warned to not underestimate Naruto since so many had already and paid with their lives for doing so.
"What is it with you people from clans," said Naruto through gritted teeth, "that you think that you are so much better than those who are not?"
"I don't think in such a way."
"Don't lie to me," said Naruto with even more anger, "for I detest liars. You are so much like your pathetic little brother."
"Don't you dare insult my family," growled Itachi.
"Oh that's rich coming from the man who slaughtered them all!"
"Enough talk. Kisame I leave him to you."
"It's about damn time," said Kisame as he swung his sword at Naruto with enough force to blast the snow away from the immediate area. Naruto easily dodged the blow and tried to use his wires to bind Kisame, but in such cold weather like he was in right now, they were greatly weakened. Plus the fact that Kisame had toughened skin only made it all but impossible to use his wires effectively. So he had to use other skills that he had under his belt.
Kisame used a water jutsu to summon up multiple sharks to attack Naruto, but his wires were at least effective to stop them in midair. But it was only then that Naruto realized that this was a distraction and that Kisame had done this so as to swing at his neck. Naruto didn't flinch as the blade made contact, but he did smile as Kisame's smirk disappeared from his face when he realized that the blade wasn't cutting like it was supposed to.
"What the hell is this," asked Kisame angrily. Naruto smirked as he pulled one of his gloves off. Kisame watched in shock as he saw Naruto's hand change into a black greyish color and used it to grab ahold of Samehada and grabbed ahold of it tightly so that no matter how hard Kisame pulled it would not budge.
"This is an ability known as the Steel Release," said Naruto with a sinister chuckle, "and it is one of five that I possess within me." Naruto then slammed his fist into Kisame's face with enough force to blast him backwards quite a bit. Kisame let go of his blade as he was blasted backwards, to which Naruto stored away for later. He wasn't sure what he would do with it in the end, but that was a thought for later. But he saw Kisame get up from the ground and took one step to attack Naruto again, but he never took a second since his body blew up, leaving nothing but his legs in bloody snow. This was Naruto's Explosion Release, and with it he could make people explode by punching them, but the down side was that he had to have more powerful chakra than the person or object he hit. But what few knew about Kisame was the fact that the man had weak chakra and relied too much on his blades ability to drain others of their own to power him up. Apparently this was a side effect of prolonged use of Samehada.
For years after he had acquired his ability to use blood as a weapon through his blood transfusion, he had continued to research the means to transfer others as well. It took quite some time to perfect the means, with more failures than he was willing to admit, but with his power he was able to do so without negative effects of any sort. He did this since he had a goal in life, one that he could not complete as he was before, so he needed the power to complete it. The problem though was finding those with bloodlines he could experiment with, and he found the perfect subjects in the deceased bodies of several shinobi from all over. Four extinct bloodlines now flowed through his body, in a sense they had been reborn through him and he would use them to accomplish his main goal in life…
"So do you still think I have no chance," said Naruto as he laughed as he saw Itachi begin to walk away a bit.
"Just because you killed Kisame does not mean you can defeat me," said Itachi as he went through the proper hand signals and blew a massive wave of flames at him. Naruto simply used his cane to twirl the wind around him in a manner that extinguished the flames before they got too close to him. He then clicked his fingers, setting up one of his Rooms before with a quick sleight of hand Itachi's eyes were in his hand. Itachi was understandably disturbed by this turn of events since he was literally looking at himself with his own eyes and used his hands clumsily to see if this was some sort of illusion. But he felt the empty sockets where his eyes used to be and began to shake in fear since this was not natural in any way.
"You think because you have these eyes that you automatically win," said Naruto as he pulled out a vial and placed them into it. "Well that didn't really work out for you now did it?"
Naruto then used his cane to smack Itachi hard across the face as Itachi tried to counter his strikes. But it was hard when he was watching all this happen through a warped perspective inside of a vial. Sure he had trained for many different scenarios, but this was one that was never taught, but then again what were the odds of this exact situation happening in the first place? Naruto kept smacking him around hard, all until he made Itachi cough out blood, which Naruto then dipped his cane into. Itachi felt as more of his flood was being sucked out of his body. Naruto used the collected blood to form the blade of a scythe and kicked Itachi over onto his back.
"And so ends the legacy of Itachi Uchiha," said Naruto as he sliced off Itachi's left arm at the shoulder. The man screamed out in pain since it hurt like hell. This was yet another moment that he was not properly ready for since one does not train to cope with sliced off appendages like this.
"My brother will avenge me!" shouted out Itachi defiantly, "he will lead our clan to its former greatness!"
"Not when I'm done with him he won't," said Naruto as he cut the other arm off.
"Why are you doing this?!"
"To be honest here this is your fault for attacking me when I refused to join up with your group. This is why I try not to fight when I can avoid it since I relish in it when I do. I am a doctor, so I know how to make a person suffer in the worst possible ways before their end. But your brother, now that is another subject all together."
"Leave him alone! He has done nothing to you!"
Wrong!" shouted Naruto angrily as he cut off both of Itachi's legs with one swipe. It was only because of Naruto's Room ability that was still up and going that Itachi was still alive since he would have passed out from the pain and then bled to death if it wasn't. "Your brother mocked me for having no clan to call my own! He beat me bloody for so much as being anywhere near him since he claimed that I was so beneath him! He mocked me more when I lost everything I cared about in life stating that some low clan-less nobody such as me should take it as a sign and just end my own life! And to make it all worse, he used his fucking eyes that he unlocked somehow to try and manipulate me into killing myself with a broken shard of glass!"
"You lie! Sasuke would never do any of that!"
"Remain in denial all you wish," said Naruto as he stepped off of Itachi's chest and picked up one of his amputated arms. This one had a summoning symbol on it. "But in the end it makes no difference to me. I will make your brother suffer and leave him a broken man. His death will not come by my hand, but he will surely wish it had been, just like you." Naruto said that last bit before he began to walk away from Itachi's stump of a body.
"Where are you going?" asked Itachi as he wiggled his body around to try and do something, but he wasn't able to move so good with nothing but stumps where his arms and legs used to be.
"Throwing you to the wolves as many have done to me," said Naruto as he continued to keep walking. He took the arm and placed it into a scroll to analyze later as well as the Sharingan eyes. Itachi was blind and helpless in this situation since no one other than Kisame and Naruto knew he was even there. Yet Naruto was gone and Kisame was dead so he was fucked. And to make matters worse, he heard growling from multiple sources around him, but since he was now officially blind since the Room was no longer in effect he was unable to see what was making the sounds. But he wondered no more since the wolves that had surrounded his body charged forward and began to tear him apart to feast on his flesh as he screamed out in pain and horror. And yet, no one was around to hear him scream…
(Current Time)
"Dear Kami," said Haku since that was all she could say as she heard how her boyfriend had utterly decimated the two shinobi that had come for him. It was true that she had seen Naruto fight and kill people in various ways, but this was a whole new level of gore that she didn't know he was capable of. Now why most women would break up with such a man since he seemed to be insane, Haku had all but been raised by Zabuza who was nearly as bloody as Naruto was when it came to killing so it didn't bother her in the slightest. In fact it made her smile more since she knew that those who tried to hurt her would feel his wrath and that was not going to end well for them.
"I second that," said Zabuza as he heard Naruto finish the story. "I take back what I said on the bridge kid. You scare me shitless most of the time."
"Glad to see that I can make someone of your reputation scared," said Naruto as he leaned forward on his cane since he was still standing this whole time as he told his story.
"So what did you do with the parts you took from Itachi?" asked Haku curiously since she wanted to know why he would do such a thing.
"Well the eyes you can plainly see I implanted into myself, but not directly."
"What do you mean?"
"I essentially liquefied them to their genetic base level and then injected my eyes so that I could gain the ability to change my eyes back and forth as I wish since it makes it easier to use without the whole constant drain of chakra hindrance. I'm not like Kakashi of Konoha with his covered up one."
"Didn't that hurt," asked Zabuza as he winced a bit after hearing that Naruto had injected something into his eye. Just the mental image alone was painful to think about.
"It would have," chuckled Naruto, "if I had not experimented on myself a while back and tweaked my nerves so that I don't feel pain unless I want to, and boy let me tell you that that was painful."
"Stop," said Zabuza who at this point had enough of hearing about this kind of stuff. "So now what do we do?"
"Well those scrolls I gave you make us all citizens of Spring Country, so let's head there and find a place to call home. Plus I can open a proper facility that people will come to instead of having to go to the people since it's becoming a bit of a nuisance sometimes and it would be nice to just relax in an office instead of just walking into a town and waiting for someone to come out of the woodworks and request aid."
"But what use do you have for a building since this operating room of yours is in another dimension all together?" asked Zabuza since Naruto had told him that a while back, but while he had been skeptical at first about it, but Naruto proved him wrong by showing that the place had no exits other than the door he could conjure up that went to so many different places that he had been before so he had no room for argument since he couldn't deny the facts that were in front of him.
"Simply appearances," said Naruto as he conjured up the fore thought of door to lead them to an area near the capital of Spring Country.
"But how are we going to afford a home. I don't have that type of cash just lying around since most of my funds went into staying hidden along with Haku and the Demon Brothers."
"I'll lend you the money to get a place of your own but it will be your job to pay me back in due time or else I will shove your head up your urethra this time. Try breathing in your piss hole."
Zabuza lost all color in his face as he heard this and simply nodded to say he agreed to the terms without question. He silently cursed himself though since he had repeatedly hoped for Haku to find a man strong enough to protect her since he did care about her enough, but this man far surpassed that bar he had set and had in fact broke it with his knee. But at least Haku was happy so he would keep his mouth shut. Now if only he could find a woman for himself to settle down with, he thought as he walked through the door, followed by Haku and then Naruto as he shut the door behind him…
(Mist Country)
A sexy red haired woman was looking over a map of the area as she planned out the next battle. All of a sudden she sneezed for no reason, and she wiped her nose as she wondered just where the hell that came from….
(Iwa)
Onoki was sitting at his desk sipping at his tea as he thought on present matters. He had just gotten a scroll that was sent every few months to register those that he was sending to the Chunin exams in another village. Now while this wasn't usually a problem for them since it was a common thing that happened three to four times a year but what was worrying him was the fact that this time it was Konoha that was hosting them. He had not forgotten the fact that it was ROOT shinobi that tried to kill him as well as kidnap his granddaughter to most likely use her to breed more shinobi and kunoichi for her bloodline.
Now what made matters worse was that the very same granddaughter of his was up for the Chunin exams alongside her team. But Onoki feared for her safety even though she was with a squad since they would be in enemy territory where many things could go wrong and he could legally do nothing if it did. Kurotsuchi had been looking forward to this for quite some time and had trained hard for it, so he was so very hesitant to tell her that she wasn't going for her own safety. Now if only she had someone who she trusted who was far more powerful to protect her…
It was at that moment that he smiled to himself as he mentally slapped himself for not thinking of this before. He knew of just the person to help with this…
Naruto, or as he was known throughout the land, The Surgeon of Death…
The boy was extremely powerful from what he himself had been able to see, which wasn't a lot mind you but from what he saw alone he showed that he had potential and skills that far exceeded any Genin around. The boy was perfect since he was not registered to any shinobi village nor was he a ranked shinobi so he could easily pose as one if needed to be. Plus he was sure Kurotsuchi would love the chance to spend time with her savior if able.
She had changed the day she had been save by Naruto, since she had upped her training exponentially so as to not be put in a situation such as that one again since it was very unlikely that Naruto would save her again like he had if it did. Yet while she trained herself day in and day out to become stronger, she would always blush or giggle whenever Naruto himself came to the village for things or to help heal those who paid him. Onoki saw the clear signs of a crush and thought that this would be the perfect opportunity to have them get to know each other. Who knows, maybe they would hit it off well enough and get married so the boy would join their village properly. That would boost their reputation immensely to have someone of his caliber within their ranks, but this was all wishful thinking really.
So with a smirk on his face, he wrote out the same thing on several scrolls and called for his best Hunter Nin to come forward. He handed each of them a scroll and told them to hunt down Naruto and deliver the message he had wrote out…
(Konoha – 2 weeks later)
Minato sat alone at his desk, all the while deep in thought about the news that had been told to him just recently. He had been happy to see that his daughter and her team were back safe and sound from their mission, but he was pissed that things did not go as planned. It was true that he knew that the mission was far more dangerous than the client had mentioned thanks to Jiraiya's spy network, and so he sent his daughter and her team since they were some of the most powerful Genin he had at the time. The plan was for them to aid the people of wave and then they would become so grateful for the assistance that they would agree to Minato's terms for a trading contract in honor of the help from their 'hero' which he had hoped would be Naruko, but that was not how things played out at all since a third party had swooped in an ended the life of the tyrannical businessman Gato instead of any of the Konoha shinobi so the people were grateful towards that person and not Konoha. Hell they named the bridge after the man in gratitude!
Sure Squad 7 had been ambushed near the start of the mission, but they handled the Demon Brothers quite well without any trouble on their end, as well as the first fight they had with Zabuza before they were tricked by a masked kunoichi and his paralyzed body was take to recover elsewhere. But when victory had been all but assured the second time they fought with Zabuza about to be killed by Kakashi, and the kunoichi he had with him restrained and nearly ready for transport back to the village so as to breed more of her bloodline, things had all gone to hell so very fast. And the name of the person who screwed with his plans only pissed him off immensely when he heard it.
Naruto…
Minato knew exactly who the boy was when he was told the name, and yet he kept his emotions in check so as to not give anything away. That boy had been a nuisance since he was born since his mother Moka had continuously requested aid from him to help them survive, but he did no such thing. He had impregnated the woman in an effort to acquire money from her rich family, not to spend his own on a child he didn't give two shits about since he was useless. Hell, he personally signed the paperwork to keep the boy out of the academy since he believed that the boy had no potential in the slightest and was even planning on having Danzo kidnap him to turn him into a ROOT shinobi so that the boy would simply disappear and his failed attempt at easy money would be forever erased from the public eye. But that never came to be because the boy had simply disappeared from the village of his own volition, and Minato couldn't be happier since now his wife Kushina would never just stumble upon hi and if the gods were truly blessing him he would simply die on his own.
But now his images of the boy had drastically changed. What Kakashi and his squad reported to him was very troubling to hear. Not only was the boy not dead like he had hoped, but he had told Naruko of their relation to each other, which luckily for him he played it off as someone lying to get into her head as a form of distraction and she bought it. He would have simply sent ROOT shinobi to secretly eliminate him, but the fact that the boy had a bloodline unlike anything he as well as anyone else had ever seen was puzzling. He had spent countless hours researching all known bloodlines, and while there were numerous ones, none of them involved weaponizing blood like Naruto had done on the bridge. He looked into the boy's family, since even though he was an unwanted bastard child to their name he still had their genetics and they couldn't change that and found nothing of the sort. So where did he acquire such power?
Orochimaru's attempts at transferring bloodlines came to mind, but that would only work if he had a sample of it to transfer and this one was new altogether so there was no samples to take and experiment with. But to add the dressing on this suck salad, Naruto was the infamous Surgeon of Death that roamed the Elemental Countries and healed people. He was well liked all over as well as the fact that he had no bounty on his head so Minato couldn't just kill him since that would just be a waste of a rare bloodline. What he needed to do was find a way to lure the boy here where he had the home field advantage and capture him. Once captured it would be fairly easy for him to have a Yamanaka to alter his mind to see Konoha as his home once more.
But now he had to think about how exactly was he going to do just that?
(Spring Country)
The past two weeks had been fairly busy for Naruto and his group. The three of them searched for their own places to live, with Naruto and Haku settling on a quaint little one story house and Zabuza moved into his own apartment. Once settled in Naruto had spent the rest of his money, except for his materials funding which he kept separate at all times so as to not spend it by accident, to buy the furniture that was needed for not only both places, but a small office building he rented so as to officially have a place of business. He had the sign put up, and a bell placed atop the door that would alert him to anyone arriving. If he wasn't there then or was unable to get to the person in need, he had appointment cards that he placed in a container that stuck to the window outside that could be dropped into the mail slot so he could put them into his log. He changed the one week calendar he had visible since he posted it on the window as well of his available days every Sunday, and had a sign warning people that his hours were subject to change.
In the week and a half since he opened the door to his new office, he had numerous clients appear for all sets of problems, each that he was able to heal with no problem. It was at this point that he figured that he needed a secretary, and he found a young orphan girl named Yuna who was looking to make money to survive. He showed her what to do, which was fairly easy, and he even renovated the back area which had been empty until now, to be a live in space so she had a place to sleep along with a mini fridge, a cot, and a hot plate with some dishes to use. Yuna was happy, which put a smile on Naruto's face since he liked to help.
But today was different. Today Naruto had woken up from his slumber, unwrapped Haku's arm from around him since she was a bit clingy when they slept in the same bed, and did his usual morning routine to make himself presentable to the world. He took one last look at Haku, who was still asleep, and smiled since she looked as peaceful as she did sexy in her underwear. Now one may think that these two have been screwing nonstop, but to be honest, the both of them were still virgins since they were not quite ready to take that plunge yet. In time they would be, but not quite yet. And it seemed that Haku was more ready than she was letting on since it seemed as though she was getting far clingier as the days went on and Naruto would always have to untangle himself from her.
But today he went to his office and saw a scroll, several in fact, with the seal of Iwa's kage on them all in his mailbox which was outside the door. So he took them inside with him to read. He wondered what the old man had sent since this was an official scroll and not a personal message like he would normally get from people. He just hoped that it wasn't another attempt to ask him to join the village since he had explained multiple times to multiple people that he wanted to remain free to roam and help those who needed it.
What he read made him raise an eyebrow since the request was strange. He wanted Naruto to take the place of one of the Genin in Kurotsutchi's squad to protect her from those in Konoha who would use the event as an opportunity to capture her for her bloodline. Naruto read the other scrolls as well and saw that they were all the same thing so he figured that Onoki had sent the same message with multiple messengers in an effort to find him faster. That was understandable since he was usually on the move so it was fairly hard to track him down.
Naruto thought about what to do for a bit before he made a decision. He had always meant to go back to the village at least once in his life to visit his mother's grave since he had left without saying goodbye to her. And now he had a valid reason to go back, so he would take it. Naruto activated the summoning seal that was on the back of his hand, doing so summoned up a crow that landed on his desk. Naruto had used the seal that had been on Itachi's arm to summon up a crow a week ago and signed the contract with them. While they were at first pissed that their previous summoner was killed since in they were attracted to a person with a dark aura of pain and hatred, they saw that Naruto's aura of such things far exceeded Itachi so they were happy to call Naruto their new summoner. Naruto wrote out his response to Onoki's request, but on the condition that he could bring Haku along as well since she wanted to test herself in the exams as well. She had told him this a while back, that she was essentially born a missing Nin since she was hated in Mist for her bloodline and as such was never able to become a ranked Nin or show others what she could do. So why not kill two birds with one stone here since he could do the job that was asked, Haku gets what he wants, and he can visit his mother's grave while in the village.
So with that, Naruto opened up his logbook and checked out just who exactly he was helping today…
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