Naruto was packing up for the C-rank, and boy was he pissed off, "(Damn Ojiji, try to set me up with that woman, he knows we have a deal…so why the fuck did he try that?)" Naruto continued packing his materials. He had everything ready for the coming mission, now all that was required was that he waits. Naruto looked out of his broken window; it was dark out, so he decided to go to sleep. Naruto crawled into his bed…unaware of the day that would come tomorrow.
Next day
Naruto had arrived at the front gate about an hour after they were asked to be there. As he walked up to the gates he saw that Tazuna was sitting therewith Sasuke and Sakura…damn, he really did not want to deal with those two right now. Naruto continued to walk, but made sure he was away from the other two and that no one could see him. He waited another hour for his sensei to show up…after an hour Kakashi finally showed up.
"Oh hey guys, have any of you seen Naruto…he's usually here." Sasuke snorted in disgust at the mention of the blond while Sakura simply shook her head.
"I'm right here Sensei." Everyone turned around to see Naruto standing in the shadows. He walked out of the shadows with that usual grin on his face. Sasuke sneered at the blond and walked up to him. Sasuke then grabbed Naruto by the shirt and brought him to his face…
"What the fuck was that stunt you pulled yesterday. You slapped your own mother, and on top of…AhAhAhAh." Sasuke immediately stopped his rant when he felt Naruto begin to grip his wrist, surprisingly Naruto had a strong grip…and man did it hurt. Naruto looked at Sasuke in the eyes…and he could have sworn they flashed red for a moment…
"She is not my mother…got it?" He pushed Sasuke off of him and proceeded to walk past him. Sasuke was about to make a grab for Naruto when Kakashi stopped him.
"Sasuke…I think it would be best if you left Naruto alone." Kakashi walked back to the front of the group…while Sasuke glared at Naruto's back…
"Alright team, let's move out." Naruto walked behind Kakashi while Sasuke and Sakura took up the rear…both staring at the blonds back
Undisclosed location
"So let me get this straight…you want me, to capture one brat. And you are willing to pay twice what I normally request for a mission like this…does that about cover it?" Zabuza had been contacted by some person in Konoha and was currently doing business with the person.
"Yes, I want him alive and am willing to pay double…if it becomes more complicated then that I will triple it." Zabuza was wide eyed at his client's request, but he smirked and was inwardly planning…
"(With this much money I will be able to gather enough followers to take down the Mizukage…looks like I will be Mizukage soon enough.)" Zabuza smirked and gave his answer…
"You have a deal…Namikaze-sama." Zabuza walked out of the inn where Kushina had asked that they meet. His apprentice Haku was waiting outside, petting his pet bunny. Kushina stayed in the room as she rooted through her purse, she finally found what she was looking for…
She pulled out a picture frame with a picture of Uzumaki Naruto…her son. She stroked the whisker marks on his cheeks, "Sochi" she wept as she clutched the picture to her chest, crying about the son who hated her…
Three days later with team 7
Sasuke had tried numerous times to talk to Naruto about his mother, each one proved to be utterly useless. Naruto even turned down Sakura's requests for answers. Kakashi had to get the two away from Naruto every time he was about to go nuts on them. He was currently trying to make sure Naruto didn't blow up at the currently annoying his head off Sasuke.
"Damn it Naruto, she is your mother so why did you do that?" Naruto glared at Sasuke.
"Shut-up." Naruto began clutching his fists.
"Naruto, answer me. You slapped her, and she was begging on her knees. Are you so pathetic that you have to slap a vulnerable mother?" Sasuke was releasing a bit of KI, but it was nothing compared to the built up KI being released by the blond.
"Shut up!" Naruto's pupils began to dilate and form into slits, not that anyone noticed.
"Dobe, you say you're an orphan yet you have still living family. What the fuck man, you should be hugging your mother…CRUNCH" Sasuke was immediately shut-up by a fist careening with his nose, breaking the cartilage. Kakashi managed to catch Sasuke from falling while Tazuna dropped his bottle of Sake. Sakura ran to Sasuke and started patching up his nose.
"Naruto, what the hell? Sasuke just wanted to know something." Naruto glared at Sakura with a small amount of Killing Intent…instantly shutting her up.
"Quiet Sakura, I am in no mood for your shrieking." He turned around and continued to walk up the path towards wave. After they had patched up Sasuke's nose. Sakura stayed a good distance away from the blond, scared of enticing his wrath, Sasuke simply glared at Naruto, Kakashi was making sure Naruto didn't go crazy…Tazuna was trying to keep himself calm…no one noticed the two ninja following them.
The demon brothers
Meizu and Gozu were watching their targets. Gatoh had hired their master Momochi Zabuza, he asked that they take out the bridge builder Tazuna, while another client, Namikaze Kushina, wanted them to capture some blond brat alive…they would only get paid if he was alive.
"Brother Meizu, should we strike now?" Meizu looked at his brother.
"No brother Gozu, we will attack when they are vulnerable."
The two looked at each other, "Agreed." They then shunshined off, waiting for the time to strike.
That night
Naruto was on night watch duty, he had tried to ignore Sasuke and Sakura talking about him behind his back, but with each passing second of them calling him, 'moody'. Hell those two have no idea the shit he had to go through in life, so they had no right to judge him. He sighed as he stared at the fire; he was completely unaware of the old man watching him.
Tazuna had originally thought that the blond would be afraid of his own shadow as soon as he saw the gaki, but when he saw him slap his mother like that…he wondered just how much he knew of the blond. He decided to talk to him to see what was up, "Hey brat." Naruto looked at the man, clearly annoyed.
"The name is Naruto, not brat…get it right." He spoke in a clearly annoyed tone. Tazuna sighed, thinking that Naruto would be a tough nut to crack.
"Look, Naruto…why is it you hate your mother?" The air grew noticeably colder at the mention of the woman.
"I would thank you not to mention her around me…Tazuna-san…my life is difficult enough without remembering that wench." Tazuna cringed at the bluntness of Naruto's insult towards his own flesh and blood. Yet he also wondered how bad Naruto's life could possibly be…hell in wave people had it bad, and they never did what this kid did to his own mother.
"How bad has your life been?" Naruto looked at Tazuna before he went back to poking at the fire. He remained silent for awhile. Tazuna sighed in exasperation…
"Fine whatever." He went back to looking at the fire…
"I was five" Tazuna looked at the blond, finally thinking he could get something out of him, "I was walking home to my run down apartment, right in the middle of the red light district." Tazuna gasped, the red light district had to be the worst place for a five year old to be, "Surprisingly, the ones who lived in the red light district actually treated me nicely." Naruto chuckled as Tazuna looked at him in surprise, "Can you imagine…the scummiest criminals in all of Konoha, the worst of the worst, were the only ones to treat me like a human being?" Tazuna was visibly shaken, "I was walking home from Ojiji-sans office, he had just signed me up for the ninja academy. I wanted to join the ninja corps so badly it hurt." Naruto looked down at that point. "But I was passing through the shinobi sector…what was I thinking?"
He brought his knees to his chest as Tazuna began to visibly cringe a bit. "A couple of ANBU…normally just glare at me, were drunk off their rocker. Once they saw me they began to chase me through the streets. After awhile I found myself in a dead end alley." Naruto let a few tears fall at that point before he swallowed and continued, "They tied me up and beat me to near submission…but because of a curse…my own father put on me…I have no scars…they wanted to make a lasting impression on me, show the 'demon brat' who is in charge." Tazuna was shaking at that point as Naruto began to remove his jacket and shirt. "Most people think I suck at Genjutsu…and they're right, but that's only because I have to keep one on at all times." Naruto ran through a few hand seals. "The genjutsu I wear…I spent three months reading through genjutsu scrolls to make it. All so it couldn't be detected, dispelled, or copied." Naruto finished the hand seals as his hand glowed blue, he then passed it over an area on his chest.
"The lasting mark they left on my body was incredibly painful. They had used a Katon jutsu to heat up a kunai knife after they had charged it up with chakra. They carved this into my chest. But because of my curse…it kept healing, so they kept carving it into my chest for what felt like hours, until one of them decided it would leave a more lasting mark by searing my flesh and then using an ice cold kunai to carve it in…that was my fourth permanent scar." Tazuna looked at the area Naruto indicated, right in the area that looked like it had been set ablaze with a welding torch and then rapidly cooled was the kanji for murderer. Tazuna also noticed that there was another scar that ran across the kanji.
"I was found by the local whore…she brought me to the whorehouse where I was treated for my injuries. Many a night I was brought to the whore house to heal my wounds and injuries, hell, some of them even offered a little fun as I grew older." Naruto immediately grew depressed afterwards. "They were the only friends and family I had, eventually I made friends with the local bums, the criminals, hell I even made friends with a few guys that aren't supposed to be in Konoha…I help them, and all I ask is that they hide my secret." Naruto went back to poking the fire.
Tazuna looked at the blond, "Why do you hide them?" Naruto scoffed at this, he looked at Tazuna with an emotionless gaze before answering…
"Pity." Naruto stood up but was stopped by Tazuna…
"What do you mean, why do you hide it because of pity?" Naruto turned towards the old man.
"I hate pity; I hate it more than I hate anything. Every time I see that pathetic look in someone's eyes it disgusts me. Pity won't heal my scars, pity won't give me back my innocence…pity won't heal what that wench did to me…I ain't much for pity Tazuna." Naruto glared right into Tazuna's eyes, "It's never gotten me anything." Naruto walked past Tazuna…but he had to jump back as a set of needles went past his head, barely missing him. Naruto snapped his head to see two mist-nin carrying around blowguns. Both had some sort of massive claw connected by a sharpened chain. They wore masks to conceal the lower half of their faces.
Naruto snapped his head towards Tazuna, "Tazuna, wake the others. I'll hold them off." Naruto turned towards the two mist nin who were conversing amongst themselves.
"The blond brat is to be taken alive, but the bridge builder must be killed." The one with two horns on his headband spoke.
"You kill the bridge builder, I will subdue the boy." The two did some odd movement with their claws before the chains separated; one ran towards Tazuna while the other ran towards Naruto with a syringe in his hand. Naruto was confused why did one of them have a syringe? He didn't have time to ponder this because he had to dodge a strike from the man that would have severely injured him. He ducked the man as he swept a claw at where his head would have been.
Naruto ducked to feel the syringe enter his arm as the fluid began running through him. Naruto started feeling extremely drowsy as the last thing he saw was someone kicking the mist nin in the face.
With Kakashi
Kakashi had tied up the two assailants and managed to prop Naruto up. He looked Naruto over and sighed, Naruto had been given a high dosage of tranquilizer…but why. Kakashi immediately turned his head towards Tazuna. "You have a lot of explaining to do Tazuna-san." Tazuna looked sheepish for a moment before he sighed.
"Alright, alright…look, this is what's going on (Insert sob story here)" Kakashi scrunched his forehead, wondering what the hell was going on. As far as what Tazuna's story could tell, Gatoh wasn't after Naruto…so why did the demon brothers work so hard to tranquilize him when they could have easily killed him. Kakashi looked to see that Naruto wouldn't be waking up for awhile. He now had to make the decision on whether or not they would continue the mission or not.
"Well guys, what do you think, do you want to continue the mission?" Sasuke looked at his hands for a moment before he smirked…
"Yeah, like I'm going to let the dobe rip on me for not continuing the mission." Sakura looked at Sasuke, then at Naruto. After a moment of this she answered…
"Yes, I don't want to have the fact that we left them to die be on my conscious." Kakashi nodded and picked up Naruto. Sakura was confused for a moment. "Sensei, don't you think Naruto would have an opinion on this?" Kakashi eye smiled at Sakura.
"Sakura, we could be facing off against a hundred S-rank missing nin and Naruto would still want to continue the mission, I don't think he would have a problem with continuing the mission if we are just going to be fighting off a few Jounin." Sakura nodded in approval while Sasuke kept glaring at Naruto. Kakashi sighed in exasperation, 'If Sasuke knew what his mother did to him, he would completely agree with everything Naruto did to her' Kakashi sighed at that thought and began to walk while Tazuna and his team followed.
One day Later, Undisclosed Location
"How the fuck could you possibly have failed to kill the bridge builder, and capture a green as a grasshopper's ass genin!?" The demon brothers cowered in fear of Zabuza. After Kakashi and his team left they managed to cut the ropes so they could report to their master….and boy was he pissed.
"Zabuza-sama, please, we managed to subdue the brat and almost got away, but we were attacked by the copy ninja Hatake Kakashi of the Sharingan eye." Zabuza raised an eyebrow at that.
"So…looks like things have become more complicated." He inwardly smirked, not only could he get a bit more cash for killing the bridge builder…but he could also get a shit load more cash to capture the brat. It was a win-win situation for him. "Alright, both of you will be accompanying me to capture the brat, while you two are to kill the bridge builder. Haku will assist us, after all, he does have the best aim, and he will most likely paralyze the brat…unlike me who would just kill him." The two nodded, knowing that every single capture mission that they have done was only successful because of Haku.
"Zabuza" the three turned around to see a pudgy man wearing a crappy suit being flanked by two mediocre samurai. "I asked you to kill the bridge builder, I don't remember any part of the mission to capture some genin brat." Zabuza snorted in contempt at the man.
"You aren't the only contractor I have Gato, and on top of that…you should probably increase the bounty on Tazuna's head, otherwise, he won't be worth my time to kill." Gato growled but sighed…
'Doesn't matter, so long as that damn Tazuna is dead…then again, this brat must be worth something…I'll have to check in on it myself." Gato inwardly smirked as he nodded his head. He left the room while Zabuza began planning how he would kill the bridge builder and capture Uzumaki Naruto…unaware that Gatoh was listening to his entire plan.
With team 7, two days later
Team 7 had crossed the river thanks to a rower who had managed to keep out of Gatoh's claws. The y were now walking through a forest as an odd mist began to roll in. Naruto was even more on edge, Kakashi had told him that those guys had tried to capture him…but why? He was trying to calm down when he heard something in the bushes. He immediately threw a kunai in the bushes. Sakura ran over to find a white rabbit, "Naruto, you baka, look at what you did to this poor rabbit. Man is it any wonder you are so cruel to your MPHMMH" Sakura was immediately shut up as Kakashi put a hand over her mouth. He began looking around as his eyes suddenly widened.
"GET DOWN!" Naruto dropped to the ground while Kakashi brought down Sakura as Sasuke brought down the client. Kakashi looked up to see a massive zanbatou styled guillotine. The next moment he saw a man jump on the guillotine. He had shinobi style pants, a bunch of bandages covering up his mouth, and a set of full arm warmers. Kakashi went wide eyed when he realized who it was.
"Momochi Zabuza, ex Kiri nin head of ANBU black ops, one of the seven swordsmen of the mist, known throughout the elemental countries as the Kirigakure no Kijin…what a pleasant surprise." Kakashi got into a fighting stance as Sasuke began to stand up. Naruto had managed to avoid the sword and had gotten a kunai out, Sakura had stood up and had readied a kunai as well. Zabuza chuckled.
"Sharingan to Kakashi, the thief of a thousand jutsu's, single-handedly fought off the Tsuchikage when he led an attack on Konoha…I'm honored." Zabuza snapped his fingers as three more Kiri Nuke-nin appeared. "Capture the blond…kill the rest." The one wearing a hunter-nin mask ran at the blond while Zabuza did a back flip and grabbed his sword. He snapped his head towards Kakashi as the demon brothers ran at Sasuke and Sakura. Zabuza ripped the sword out of the tree and swung it down on Kakashi.
Naruto watched as the one wearing a hunter-nin mask charged at him, with one thought going through his head, 'What do they want with me?' Naruto ducked to the side as the Nuke-nin threw a hail of senbon needles at him. Naruto threw a kunai at the nin as he pulled out a kunai knife, charging at the nuke-nin…