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Naruto woke up early today, exited about his first day of school. He went down stairs to have breakfast with the family while they talked as normal.
"So Son, are you ready for your first day of school?" Asked Minato.
"You betcha I am!"
"Naruto I'm proud of you. Today is your first day at the academy and you're already very strong. I'm glad it hasn't gone to your head."
"Of course Uncle Jiraiya I know I'm strong but I'm nowhere near strong enough to protect the village and my loved ones yet."
That boy is just like his father in every way. He is destined for great things. Thought Jiraiya.
"Well Naruto-kun I'm proud of you too. I've watched you over the years grow into a fine young man." Said Tsunade.
"Thanks Aunt Tsunade." Said Naruto with a smile.
"Well Son are you ready to go now?"
"Yea!" Yelled Naruto as he jumped up and ran out the door.
Minato and Naruto walked toward the academy taking their time since they had a little while to spare. As they arrived at the academy they ran into Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji, along with their parents who were talking to each other. "Hey Shikamaru, Ino, Choji, what's up?" Said Naruto.
"Hey Naruto." Said all three at once.
"Greetings, Hokage-sama, how are you today? Said Shikaku with a grin.
"Oh come on Shika cut the Hokage crap."
"As you wish, Hokage-sama, I only wish to show our children how to respect their superiors."
Minato pulled Shikaku in close and whispered "Keep it up and I'll be having a little talk with Yoshino about where you go every Wednesday night." As he let a small grin show.
"Leave her out of it Minato that would be way too troublesome."
"Thank you." Said Minato. "Chouza, Inoichi, how are you two today?"
"I'm doing fine Minato how about yourself?" said Inoichi."
"Great, I'm glad all of our kids get to start the academy at the same time."
"As am I. Naruto, Shikamaru, and Ino are Choji's best friends it will be good for all of them." Said Chouza.
All the parents stood around talking for a while as the kids wandered off, where they ran into Sasuke and Itachi.
"Hey Sasuke, Itachi, what's up?" Said Naruto.
"Hello Naruto." Said Itachi.
"Hey Naruto, Skikamaru, Ino, Choji. 'Sup?" Said Sasuke.
"Sasuke-KUN!"
"What the?" Said Naruto.
"Haha they found you little bro. Good luck I'll see you later." Said Itachi as he disappeared in a swirl of leaves.
"What is he talking about Sasuke?" Said Naruto.
"NARUTO-KUN!"
"Why are they hollering at me too?!"
"Dammit Naruto the fangirls!. RUN!" Said a wide eyed Sasuke.
"Fangirls?"
"Crazy little girls that think they love you, it's a bad deal man." Said Sasuke as he started running away.
Naruto took off after him, and when he caught up he said "What's so bad about girls with a crush?"
"They are like a mob man they will eat us alive!"
Naruto's eyes went wide as well as he noticed they were gaining on them.
"Oh shit Sasuke hold on!" Said Naruto as he grabbed Sasuke's shoulder and disappeared in a flash of red light.
The fangirls converged on the area where Naruto and Sasuke just disappeared from and they all said "Where's Sasuke-kun?" And "Where's Naruto-kun?" "HEY! WHO CARES ABOUT NARUTO? SASUKE-KUN IS GONE!" "SASUKE SUCKS WE HAVE TO FIND MY NARUTO-KUN!" as they broke out into a fight kicking up a large dust cloud, screaming, and calling each other names.
Shikamaru looked to where the girls were at with a puzzled look wondering how Naruto and Sasuke got away as the duo appeared in a red flash beside him.
"What the?" Said Shikamaru, Sasuke, Ino, and Choji simultaneously.
"Flying Thunder God. It's my dad's signature jutsu, like a clan technique sort of. It allows me to transport anywhere that I mark or throw one of these special made kunai." Said Naruto as he held up a tri-pronged kunai.
"Sweet move Naruto. It just saved our asses." Said Sasuke as he grinned a little. "Look at what they're doing to each other. That's why we had to run."
"I see…" Said Naruto.
"Whoa Naruto that move is so cool!" Said Ino.
"Thanks Ino." Said Naruto as he rubbed his neck and smiled.
"Well, we are about to be late and that would be awfully troublesome. We should go on in now." Said Shikamaru.
"Sure." Said everyone simultaneously as they walked into the building and to their classroom.
Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji sat on one row and Naruto and Sasuke sat beside each other on the next row down, leaving a seat open beside each of them. Naruto and Sasuke were turned around talking to the others when suddenly "NARUTO-KUN!" and "SASUKE-KUN!" rang out from the door as the girls started knocking each other down trying to get to the open seat. "Beat it he's mine!" Yelled one of the girls with long pink hair and a red dress as she knocked a girl out of the way and sat beside Sasuke. Sasuke just proceeded to slam his head down onto the desk as Shikamaru laughed at the ordeal. "Move it bitch he belongs to me now!" Said a girl with short lavender hair and white eyes with a cream colored coat and blue ninja pants as she pushed her way into the seat beside Naruto. Naruto followed Sasuke's example and slammed his head down on the desk as he said "Sasuke."
"Do it."
Naruto and Sasuke disappeared in a flash of red light as the girls started going crazy again. "What happened to them this time?!" and "I bet it was Sasuke-kun trying to show off for us!" and "You wish you crazy bitch that was obviously Naruto-kun!" Until finally the door flew open and a man in his early twenties walked through the door and yelled "Alright everyone, sit down and shut up!" as all the fangirls ran away to find seats and The lavender and pink haired girls sat back down. "Alright time for roll call! Shino Aburame?" "Here."
The man continued down the list until he reached Naruto. "Naruto Namikaze?" he looked around the room a second "Naruto Namikaze?" Suddenly a red flash appeared in the seat between the two fangirls and Naruto said "Here."
"Why are you two late?!" yelled the man.
"Sorry. We got lost on the road of life." Said Naruto as he rubbed the back of his neck.
Great. The Uchiha and the Hokage's son are friends and we have a mini Kakashi on our hands.
"Okay then smartass who do you think you are?!" Yelled Iruka as a vein popped up on his fourhead.
"Naruto Namikaze."
"Well Naruto, Sasuke… DON'T EVER BE LATE TO MY CLASS AGAIN!" Yelled Iruka.
"Sorry." Said Naruto and Sasuke.
"Okay." Said Iruka as he continued the roll call and everyone snickered at the boys getting in trouble.
"Now that that's out of the way, My name is Iruka Umino. I'm a chunin and I will be your instructor. You may refer to me as Iruka-sensei. Any questions? Okay good. Open your books to page 1."
Later that day
"Okay that is all for today, you are dismissed." Said Iruka as everyone closed their book and started to leave. "Uchiha, Namikaze. I need to have a word with you two. Naruto and Sasuke looked at each other and gulped.
Out in the hallway Shikamaru Ino and Choji waited where they could hear the screams and they winced occasionally.
A few minutes later Sasuke and Naruto came out of the room and the group all walked off down the hallway.
"So guys, how about we go eat to celebrate our first day? My treat." Said Naruto.
"Sure lets go." Said everyone simultaneously.
So they all started walking towards Ichiraku's ramen stand. Once they got out of the school and started walking down the road they heard a familiar sound again, but less annoying than before. "Hey Sasuke-kun." Said the pink haired girl.
"Who are you?" Said Sasuke as he looked at the girl.
"My name is Sakura, Sakura Haruno. I was wondering if you would like to go eat sometime or something?"
Well she is definitely better without the crowd. It can't hurt to let her tag along I don't suppose.
"Well we are going to eat right now; you can come with us if you want. As long as Naruto doesn't mind, this was his idea."
"It's fine with me. You said you were Sakura right? I guess you already know that this is Sasuke, I'm Naruto, this is Ino, Choji, and Shikamaru." As he pointed at each respectively.
"Hi Sakura." Said Choji and Ino.
"Troublesome." Said Shikamaru.
"Well let's carry on shall we?" Said Sasuke.
"Hold on a second." Said a voice as everyone turned around to see the white eyed girl standing a few yards back.
"Well who are you?" Said Naruto.
"My name is Hinata Hyuga, I don't mean to impose, but would you mind if I tagged along also Naruto-kun?"
That's the girl who sat beside me earlier. She seems a lot better without the rest of the fangirls. What harm could it do? Thought Naruto.
"Sure that's fine by me you can come." Said Naruto.
"Thank you Naruto-kun." Said Hinata as she blushed.
"Let's try this again then" said Sasuke as they turned and walked back towards Ichiraku's again.
4 years later.
It is 1 week before graduation and all the students sat in class listening to Iruka lecture for the last time before they graduated. After the lecture was their graduation exam and team assignments and then they had the week off before the ceremony.
Over the years Naruto has now mastered the FTG on his father's level, along with finishing his wind style: Rasengan and showing his dad how he did it which enabled him to complete his own. Naruto also combined his lighting element to the Rasengan as well, which his dad has yet to accomplish. Naruto has picked up many wind, lightning, and water jutsu; deciding to be proficient in all 3 rather than master one while he is weak in the others.
Sasuke has also become very strong over the years. Aided by his brother Itachi, he has become a master of fire style techniques. He has also awoken his 1 tomoe sharingan. Sasuke has recently discovered that he has an affinity for lightning also, so Kakashi helped him along with some lightning jutsu. Sasuke and Naruto have worked together and complement each other greatly, with Naruto's wind and water, and Sasuke's fire and lighting. They have developed a few collaboration techniques and as a duo they are feared even by many jounin in the village.
Naruto's other friends have also gained much ground with their clan techniques as well as some other skills.
"Well, that's it everyone. We are officially done with lectures for the year. In a few moments myself and Mizuki sensei will begin to call you 2 at a time into the next room for your graduation exam. Everyone understand?" Said Iruka.
Meanwhile, at the Hokage's office.
"So have you considered my offer, Itachi." Said Minato.
"Yes Hokage-sama. While it is untraditional, it will allow me to keep my little brother and his best friend safer.
If you don't mind me asking though, why did you decide to do this?"
"Well, It's clear that Naruto and Sasuke are in a league of their own, and I fear that putting them on a normal genin team would inhibit their skills. I believe them to be high chunin, if not low jounin level already. They actually remind me of you at their age Itachi."
"Well Hokage-sama I would be honored to teach them alongside Kakashi."
"Thank you Itachi. You and Kakashi will meet them there at 5:00 PM today."
"Yes sir. Will there be anything further?"
"No, you are dismissed." And with that Itachi disappeared in a swirl of leaves.
Back at the Academy
Iruka stepped in the door and said "Namikaze, Uchiha, your turn. Come on."
Naruto and Sasuke got up and grinned at each other before walking down the stairs and out of the room with Iruka.
When they arrived in the testing room Mizuki called out "Namikaze you'll be with me." As Iruka said "That means I've got you Uchiha. For your graduation exam I want you to make 2 clones, and henge one into me. You may begin."
Sasuke smiled and 2 clones appeared at his side, one in the form of Iruka.
"Very impressive you made a bunshin with no hand seals. Good job Sasuke you pass." Said Iruka as he handed Sasuke a headband.
"Not just any bunshin. Being best friends with the village's leading expert on shadow clones has it's advantages." Said Sasuke with a smirk.
"Wow very good Sasuke that is a jounin level technique. Who is this expert you speak of?"
"You're looking at him." Said Naruto with a smirk of his own.
"Naruto?" Said Iruka "You are the so-called master of the kagebunshin?"
"Yep." Said Naruto as 3 clones suddenly appeared, one in the form of Iruka, one as Mizuki, and the last as Sasuke.
"Well then. You are both very impressive then. You pass too Naruto." Said Iruka as he handed Naruto a headband.
"Congratulations Naruto." Said Sasuke.
"You too. I didn't know you could do clones without seals yet though."
"Yea I've been keeping it a surprise." Said Sasuke as he smirked.
The two walked out of the room and back to an empty one near theirs to await the team announcements while Iruka and Mizuki continued the testing.
"So Sasuke, did you feel anything "off" about Mizuki-sensei?
"Yea, I did get a bad feeling about him. I wonder what he's up too?"
"I'm not sure but we should find out." Said Naruto with an evil grin as a clone appeared beside him.
Naruto reached up and whispered something to the clone and it disappeared in a flash of red.
Back at the Hokage's office
Minato sat at his desk taking break on one of the rare occasions that his paperwork was caught up when suddenly a red ball of light appeared in front of his desk.
"Naruto what are you doing here?"
The clone bowed and said "Hokage-sama, I am just a clone. Naruto told me to come inform you that there may be something going on with Mizuki-sensei."
"Care to elaborate on that?"
"Sir, both your son and Sasuke felt something off when they went in the room with him to take their final. They are not sure what is going on but felt that you should know just in case. Naruto also told me to request permission for him to investigate further into the issue."
"Alright, permission granted but make sure to be careful with it, and call if I am needed."
"Yes sir." Said the clone as it poofed away into smoke.
"Well well, just passed his genin final and you're already sending him off on an A-rank mission with only another genin." Said a voice from behind Minato.
"Yea Sensei, I have had some reports of strange behavior from Mizuki lately but nothing concrete. If those two were able to sense bad intentions from him then maybe they can get to the bottom of it. Besides, you forget that they will only be genin for a couple of weeks. We are going to field test them and promote them both as soon as possible."
"Yea yea politics and the what not." Said Jiraiya as he grinned at Minato.
Back at the academy
"So what's your plan Naruto?" Said Sasuke.
"Well, I feel as if he has something in mind for very soon. Possibly involving one of the genin candidates maybe?"
"You could be right but what would a jounin need a genin for?"
Naruto's eyes went wide as he said "Infiltration. He wants to trick one of the genin into getting something for him so he doesn't have to risk being caught. But who? And what does he want?"
"Good point Naruto. He is after something in the village and wants to manipulate someone into doing it for him to cut the risk."
"I have an idea." Said Naruto as a clone appeared beside him and henged into Kakashi and walked out the door.
"What was that about?"
"We need a list of all the genin who failed their exams I have an idea about who he wants and how to figure out what."
"Well there's a brain somewhere in there after all." Said Sasuke as he grinned and punched Naruto in the arm.
With Naruto's clone
'Kakashi' walked down the hallway until he got to the exam room. He knocked on the door and heard Iruka say "Enter."
'Kakashi' walked in and said "Iruka, may I have a word with you outside?"
"Sure Kakashi-san." Said Iruka as he got up and made his way to the hallway.
"So Kakashi, what is it that you wanted?"
"First of all this is a clone of Naruto, I am henged into Kakashi so I don't draw attention talking to you like this. What I came for is to ask you for a list of all the candidates who failed to pass the exam."
"Naruto I can't just hand that out it is confidential."
"It is under the order of the Hokage, we suspect Mizuki is up to something and are trying to figure out what it is. I need a list of all the candidates who fail the test so I can figure out who the target is."
"Okay Naruto I'll be right back with what we have so far."
"Okay."
Iruka walked into the room and returned a moment later with a piece of paper with several names written on it.
"Thank you Iruka-sensei. Here I want you to take this for now." Said Naruto as he handed Iruka a paper tag with a seal for the FTG on it. "If you find out anything about what he is up too, channel some chakra into that seal and ill come as soon as I can."
"Okay Naruto be careful." Said Iruka as 'Kakashi' walked off back towards the classroom.
Back in the classroom
Naruto and Sasuke were sitting there discussing more about Mizuki when suddenly the door opened and 'Kakashi' walked in and handed Naruto the paper.
"Well good job on that one Naruto." Said Sasuke as they looked at the paper.
Naruto quickly took a pen and copied the list of names and made another clone beside him.
"I need you to take this to the Hokage." Said Naruto.
"Yes sir." Said the clone as it walked out the door before disappearing in a red flash.
At the Hokage office
The clone appeared in front of Minato's desk as Minato said "What is it that you've found Naruto?"
"Sir, I have a list of names here that Naruto wishes to receive information about."
"What kind of information does he request?"
"Naruto wishes to know about the home-life of all of these people, as well as any past questionable acts or run-ins with ANBU."
"Okay I can do that hold on for just a minute." Said Minato as he turned to his computer and started typing before he printed off several pages and handed them to the clone. "This is what he seeks, it is for yours and Sasuke's eyes only and is to be destroyed after you finish."
"Yes sir." Said the clone as he flashed away.
"Well it looks like they are making progress, maybe you were right to allow them to do this." Said Jiraiya.
"Yes they are doing exceptionally well. Hopefully they will get to the bottom of it and stop whatever he has planned."
Back at the academy
Naruto's clone flashed in at the door then turned to walk inside and delivered the paper to Naruto.
"Thank you." Said Naruto as the clone dispelled. "Well Sasuke we got background reports on all of the names listed. Shall we?"
"They won't search themselves." Said Sasuke as he grabbed half of the stack and started looking for anything that looked different. He found 3 reports that were of interest to him and set them to the side.
Naruto also searched his stack and separated 2 reports from the rest. When he finished he looked to Sasuke and said "Well, I found 2 persons of interest. What about you?"
"I got three that are interesting." Said Sasuke as he handed the stack to Naruto.
Naruto looked over the 5 people for a moment before he said "I think this is the one right here." As he laid the paper on the desk.
"Akina Kasuki. 12 years old, orphaned. Both parents died on a mission 8 years ago. She has been caught by the ANBU on several occasions stealing from various booths in the market since she was kicked out of the orphanage when she turned 8 and started to the academy." Said Naruto as another clone appeared beside him. He wrote the girls name on a piece of paper and handed it to the clone. "I need you to go to Iruka and get this girl's progress report from the academy for the last 4 years."
"Yes sir." Said the clone as he walked to the hallway and henged into Kakashi again and went to the exam room.
He knocked on the door and stepped inside and said "Sorry to keep interrupting you Iruka but may I speak with you again?"
Iruka nodded and walked out to the hall with 'Kakashi'.
"What do you need Naruto?"
"I need the progress report for this girl for her 4 years at the academy. By the way you are sworn to secrecy about this matter as of now until we figure out what is going on."
"Okay follow me to my office and I'll get the report for you."
Iruka and 'Kakashi' walked down the hall to Iruka's office where he printed off a 4 year report on the girl and handed it to 'Kakashi who walked to the door as he changed back to Naruto and went inside and handed the papers to the real Naruto.
"Thank you." Said Naruto as the clone dispelled. "Well it appears that the girl struggled to stay afloat all throughout school but she did excel at stealth techniques and henge. That fits the person that Mizuki would need to infiltrate something. So now we have a 'who' we still need a 'what' though."
"I've got an idea for that. We need to find her, Mizuki will likely go after her once the exams are done. We need to find her first and have one of our clones henge into her. He will make his offer to her and then we will have our what. After that all we have to do is set a trap."
"Good idea. Seems I'm not the only one who has a brain at this table." Said Naruto as he laughed. "Let's pay a visit to the Hokage."
Naruto put his hand on Sasuke's shoulder and disappeared in a red flash only to reappear in front of the Hokage.
Sasuke bowed as Naruto said "Dad I think we found Mizuki's target, or at least part of it. We came to get your opinion before we continued on though."
"What have you learned?" Asked Minato.
"Well, there is a girl our age from another class, her name is Akina Kasuki. She is orphaned and was kicked out of the orphanage 4 years ago. Since then she has apparently turned to stealing to get by on. She struggled in the academy in all fields except stealth and the henge jutsu. We believe that Mizuki intends to manipulate her somehow into infiltrating somewhere to get something for him. That way he is out of the fire so to speak.
We plan on talking to this Akina girl and then henging into her so that when Mizuki comes to offer the deal we will know what he wants, as well as gain evidence against him." Said Naruto.
"Very well you have my approval on the matter. You two have done exceptional on this, especially for only being genin for less than 2 hours." Said Minato with a grin. "You may leave now, report back with any findings."
"Yes sir." Said both boys as they disappeared in a flash of red.
"Damn Minato you better watch it he's gunning for your job hard now. That's a damn impressive investigation judging from his report. You were definitely right to let them go ahead with this." Said Jiraiya.
"Yea I know, it makes me proud both as a father and as the Hokage. My boy will be a damn fine Hokage when his time comes." Said Minato as he smiled big.
Back in the village with Naruto and Sasuke.
Naruto and Sasuke were looking for the address they found for the girl in one of the not-so-nice neighborhoods in Konoha. After about 10 minutes of looking they found the house they were looking for and knocked on the door.
"One minute please." Said a feminine voice that sounded sad.
A second later a young girl that looked like the picture of Akina, only less healthy and a bit older, opened the door and quickly stepped out and shut the door. "How may I help you today?"
"Are you Akina Kasuki?" Asked Sasuke in a friendly voice.
"Yes, why?"
"We would like to talk to you for a moment if you don't mind. How about some lunch?" Said Naruto.
"Umm…" Akina.
"My treat. So how about it?"
"Umm… Sure that will be fine. I'll be right back okay?" Said Akina as she quickly opened the door and disappeared and then a moment later came back looking like she cleaned up a bit.
"So Akina, what would you like to eat?" Said Naruto.
"Anything is fine with me … I just realized I never got your names. I'm Sorry." Said Akina as she looked down at the ground.
"Oh sorry where are our manners. My name is Naruto Namikaze and this is my friend Sasuke Uchiha. But anyways, you pick anywhere you want to go and we will follow."
"You mean Naruto Namikaze the son of the Fourth? And Sasuke Uchiha, the brother of Itachi Uchiha? You two are quite famous among genin and academy students." Said Akina as she led them into a BBQ joint a few blocks from her house, in the 'nicer' area of the neighborhood.
"Yea that's us, but we are just normal people. Regular genins, so don't try to treat us as special or anything please." Said Sasuke.
They all sat down at a table and ordered their food as they talked a bit about nothing. Once the food came Naruto ran through a couple of hand seals as a barrier of red chakra formed around them and disappeared as Akina looked at him fearfully.
"Don't worry Akina, it was just a privacy jutsu. As we said earlier we need to talk to you about some sensitive issues."
"Like what?"
"Well Akina, to begin, we are led to believe that Mizuki-sensei plans to use you for something. What we are not sure yet but that's why we came to talk to you. Mizuki hasn't spoken to you since the exam has he?" Asked Naruto.
"No, he hasn't. Wait yes, right after my exam he told me that he would give me a chance to retest. He told me to meet him at training ground 18 at 8:00 PM tonight. Does that have anything to do with what you guys want?"
"Yes it does Akina. He was lying to you about the retest. You can only retest in the academy. 3 days from now they will have a retest and you can take it then. But tonight he was trying to get you in trouble. If you agree to help us we will help you pass your exam and graduate with us Friday. Sound good?"
"What do you need me to do?"
"We need your permission to henge into you and go to this meeting with Mizuki. If you agree we can find out his plan and stop him as well as get evidence against him." Said Sasuke.
"Okay I agree. Thank you guys so much for keeping me out of trouble. I get into enough of it on my own" Said Akina as she frowned and looked like she was about to cry.
"Akina, I want you to take this" said Naruto as he pulled out some money "and get a hotel for now. If for some reason we fail to capture Mizuki then he will know where you live and may try to harm you. So there is plenty of money there for a hotel room and some food for 2 days. If something happens we can go from there. Thanks for your help. We will each leave a clone to help you get a couple of things from home if you need, as well as to let us know where you're staying so we can find you if we need to talk anymore."
With that they finished eating and each left a clone with Akina and flashed away to the Hokage's office.
"Hello again boys what have you found now?"
"We found the girl and spoke with her. She said that Mizuki promised her a chance to retest if she met him at training ground 18 at 8PM. I will henge into her and attend the meeting to find out Mizuki's objective as well as gain concrete evidence. Once I get what I need I will give a sign and Naruto will capture him. How does that sound Hokage-sama?" Said Sasuke.
"Excellent plan boys. As I said you have my full support."
"Thanks Dad."
"Thank you sir." As both boys disappeared again and reappeared at Naruto's house which was not far from training ground 18.
They started to walk over to the training ground to inspect it and lay a trap for Mizuki.
7:30 that night.
Naruto and Sasuke had just finished going over the plan again and Sasuke henged into Akina and made his way over to a large rock on the edge of the field as Naruto sat on the roof of his home with a pair of binoculars waiting for the signal. A few minutes later Mizuki came walking into the training ground and over to 'Akina'.
"I'm glad you came Akina. Are you ready for your test?"
'Akina' nodded her head and said "Yes sensei, what do I have to?"
"What you are to do is to break into the jutsu archive in the Hokage tower and get the scroll of forbidden seals. Once you get it, if you can learn any one jutsu from the scroll you will pass. There is a clearing 1 mile northwest of the village. I will be waiting there for you at 2:00AM. If you can learn a jutsu from the scroll and demonstrate it to me by 2:00, then you will pass and be a genin. Do you understand?"
"Yes." Said 'Akina' as she bowed deeper than normal to Mizuki. At that exact moment there was a bright flash of red light in front of Mizuki as he was sent flying backwards from a fist in his gut. Before he knew what happened there was another flash behind him and he was drove into the ground hard, forming a small crater around his body. No sooner than he hit a giant white hot fire ball was sent flying at him. He noticed it in time and ran through some hand seals and yelled "Earth style: Earth dome!" as a dome of mud encased him. He let the dome fall and jumped out onto the ground and looked around but found no one around, when suddenly a red flash appeared infront of him and kicked him high into the air. As he was flying up Naruto started going through some hand seals and focusing his chakra, while Sasuke jumped above Mizuki and kicked him down sending him flying towards the earth. As soon as he hit Sasuke was on him again and axe kicked him in the stomach sending him further down into a crater. As soon as he stood up to walk out he was surrounded by a ball of water as Naruto said "Water style: Water prison jutsu.". Sasuke then walked up to the dome and looked at Mizuki as Mizuki yelled "You little bastards you're just genin how the hell did you beat me?!"
"Well first of all, we're no ordinary genin." Said Sasuke.
"And second, even the mightiest of warriors can be brought down with a good strategy. You didn't even know who we were until we caught you and I revealed myself." Said Naruto.
With that Naruto dropped the water prison and instantly appeared behind Mizuki and hit a pressure point on his neck, knocking him out instantly. Sasuke quickly tied him up and kicked him in the ribs for good measures. Naruto walked up and put one hand on Sasuke's shoulder and another on Mizuki as they disappeared in a red flash.
Minato looked up as a red flash appeared in his room and as it faded he seen his son and Sasuke standing over an unconscious Mizuki. They explained what was going on to him before an ANBU walked out and took the prisoner to a holding cell.
"Great job catching this traitor boys. You guarded one of the biggest secrets of our village by taking him out. I'm proud of you both. Now here is your pay for an S-rank mission."
"Thank you Hokage-sama it was our honor to catch this scum who would take advantage of a poor girl with a broken spirit."
"Thanks Dad, and Sasuke is right. He is a piece of shit for trying to prey on her emotions. She's got it hard Dad, is there anything we can do to help her?"
"Well, I guess could give her pay for an S-rank since she had a part in this mission as well."
"Well if that's the case I'd like to put a bounty on Mizuki and pretend that we were never hear and that she brought him in." Said Naruto as he handed his money back to his dad.
"Same goes for me; I'll match Naruto's bounty. Shall we deliver the pay as well as the bounty to Akina sir?"
"Yes that will be fine Sasuke, you and Naruto report back here at 8AM tomorrow to receive her package. By the way that was a very mature thing to do, both of you. I'm so proud of both of you."
"So Son, are you ready for your first day of school?" Asked Minato.
"You betcha I am!"
"Naruto I'm proud of you. Today is your first day at the academy and you're already very strong. I'm glad it hasn't gone to your head."
"Of course Uncle Jiraiya I know I'm strong but I'm nowhere near strong enough to protect the village and my loved ones yet."
That boy is just like his father in every way. He is destined for great things. Thought Jiraiya.
"Well Naruto-kun I'm proud of you too. I've watched you over the years grow into a fine young man." Said Tsunade.
"Thanks Aunt Tsunade." Said Naruto with a smile.
"Well Son are you ready to go now?"
"Yea!" Yelled Naruto as he jumped up and ran out the door.
Minato and Naruto walked toward the academy taking their time since they had a little while to spare. As they arrived at the academy they ran into Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji, along with their parents who were talking to each other. "Hey Shikamaru, Ino, Choji, what's up?" Said Naruto.
"Hey Naruto." Said all three at once.
"Greetings, Hokage-sama, how are you today? Said Shikaku with a grin.
"Oh come on Shika cut the Hokage crap."
"As you wish, Hokage-sama, I only wish to show our children how to respect their superiors."
Minato pulled Shikaku in close and whispered "Keep it up and I'll be having a little talk with Yoshino about where you go every Wednesday night." As he let a small grin show.
"Leave her out of it Minato that would be way too troublesome."
"Thank you." Said Minato. "Chouza, Inoichi, how are you two today?"
"I'm doing fine Minato how about yourself?" said Inoichi."
"Great, I'm glad all of our kids get to start the academy at the same time."
"As am I. Naruto, Shikamaru, and Ino are Choji's best friends it will be good for all of them." Said Chouza.
All the parents stood around talking for a while as the kids wandered off, where they ran into Sasuke and Itachi.
"Hey Sasuke, Itachi, what's up?" Said Naruto.
"Hello Naruto." Said Itachi.
"Hey Naruto, Skikamaru, Ino, Choji. 'Sup?" Said Sasuke.
"Sasuke-KUN!"
"What the?" Said Naruto.
"Haha they found you little bro. Good luck I'll see you later." Said Itachi as he disappeared in a swirl of leaves.
"What is he talking about Sasuke?" Said Naruto.
"NARUTO-KUN!"
"Why are they hollering at me too?!"
"Dammit Naruto the fangirls!. RUN!" Said a wide eyed Sasuke.
"Fangirls?"
"Crazy little girls that think they love you, it's a bad deal man." Said Sasuke as he started running away.
Naruto took off after him, and when he caught up he said "What's so bad about girls with a crush?"
"They are like a mob man they will eat us alive!"
Naruto's eyes went wide as well as he noticed they were gaining on them.
"Oh shit Sasuke hold on!" Said Naruto as he grabbed Sasuke's shoulder and disappeared in a flash of red light.
The fangirls converged on the area where Naruto and Sasuke just disappeared from and they all said "Where's Sasuke-kun?" And "Where's Naruto-kun?" "HEY! WHO CARES ABOUT NARUTO? SASUKE-KUN IS GONE!" "SASUKE SUCKS WE HAVE TO FIND MY NARUTO-KUN!" as they broke out into a fight kicking up a large dust cloud, screaming, and calling each other names.
Shikamaru looked to where the girls were at with a puzzled look wondering how Naruto and Sasuke got away as the duo appeared in a red flash beside him.
"What the?" Said Shikamaru, Sasuke, Ino, and Choji simultaneously.
"Flying Thunder God. It's my dad's signature jutsu, like a clan technique sort of. It allows me to transport anywhere that I mark or throw one of these special made kunai." Said Naruto as he held up a tri-pronged kunai.
"Sweet move Naruto. It just saved our asses." Said Sasuke as he grinned a little. "Look at what they're doing to each other. That's why we had to run."
"I see…" Said Naruto.
"Whoa Naruto that move is so cool!" Said Ino.
"Thanks Ino." Said Naruto as he rubbed his neck and smiled.
"Well, we are about to be late and that would be awfully troublesome. We should go on in now." Said Shikamaru.
"Sure." Said everyone simultaneously as they walked into the building and to their classroom.
Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji sat on one row and Naruto and Sasuke sat beside each other on the next row down, leaving a seat open beside each of them. Naruto and Sasuke were turned around talking to the others when suddenly "NARUTO-KUN!" and "SASUKE-KUN!" rang out from the door as the girls started knocking each other down trying to get to the open seat. "Beat it he's mine!" Yelled one of the girls with long pink hair and a red dress as she knocked a girl out of the way and sat beside Sasuke. Sasuke just proceeded to slam his head down onto the desk as Shikamaru laughed at the ordeal. "Move it bitch he belongs to me now!" Said a girl with short lavender hair and white eyes with a cream colored coat and blue ninja pants as she pushed her way into the seat beside Naruto. Naruto followed Sasuke's example and slammed his head down on the desk as he said "Sasuke."
"Do it."
Naruto and Sasuke disappeared in a flash of red light as the girls started going crazy again. "What happened to them this time?!" and "I bet it was Sasuke-kun trying to show off for us!" and "You wish you crazy bitch that was obviously Naruto-kun!" Until finally the door flew open and a man in his early twenties walked through the door and yelled "Alright everyone, sit down and shut up!" as all the fangirls ran away to find seats and The lavender and pink haired girls sat back down. "Alright time for roll call! Shino Aburame?" "Here."
The man continued down the list until he reached Naruto. "Naruto Namikaze?" he looked around the room a second "Naruto Namikaze?" Suddenly a red flash appeared in the seat between the two fangirls and Naruto said "Here."
"Why are you two late?!" yelled the man.
"Sorry. We got lost on the road of life." Said Naruto as he rubbed the back of his neck.
Great. The Uchiha and the Hokage's son are friends and we have a mini Kakashi on our hands.
"Okay then smartass who do you think you are?!" Yelled Iruka as a vein popped up on his fourhead.
"Naruto Namikaze."
"Well Naruto, Sasuke… DON'T EVER BE LATE TO MY CLASS AGAIN!" Yelled Iruka.
"Sorry." Said Naruto and Sasuke.
"Okay." Said Iruka as he continued the roll call and everyone snickered at the boys getting in trouble.
"Now that that's out of the way, My name is Iruka Umino. I'm a chunin and I will be your instructor. You may refer to me as Iruka-sensei. Any questions? Okay good. Open your books to page 1."
Later that day
"Okay that is all for today, you are dismissed." Said Iruka as everyone closed their book and started to leave. "Uchiha, Namikaze. I need to have a word with you two. Naruto and Sasuke looked at each other and gulped.
Out in the hallway Shikamaru Ino and Choji waited where they could hear the screams and they winced occasionally.
A few minutes later Sasuke and Naruto came out of the room and the group all walked off down the hallway.
"So guys, how about we go eat to celebrate our first day? My treat." Said Naruto.
"Sure lets go." Said everyone simultaneously.
So they all started walking towards Ichiraku's ramen stand. Once they got out of the school and started walking down the road they heard a familiar sound again, but less annoying than before. "Hey Sasuke-kun." Said the pink haired girl.
"Who are you?" Said Sasuke as he looked at the girl.
"My name is Sakura, Sakura Haruno. I was wondering if you would like to go eat sometime or something?"
Well she is definitely better without the crowd. It can't hurt to let her tag along I don't suppose.
"Well we are going to eat right now; you can come with us if you want. As long as Naruto doesn't mind, this was his idea."
"It's fine with me. You said you were Sakura right? I guess you already know that this is Sasuke, I'm Naruto, this is Ino, Choji, and Shikamaru." As he pointed at each respectively.
"Hi Sakura." Said Choji and Ino.
"Troublesome." Said Shikamaru.
"Well let's carry on shall we?" Said Sasuke.
"Hold on a second." Said a voice as everyone turned around to see the white eyed girl standing a few yards back.
"Well who are you?" Said Naruto.
"My name is Hinata Hyuga, I don't mean to impose, but would you mind if I tagged along also Naruto-kun?"
That's the girl who sat beside me earlier. She seems a lot better without the rest of the fangirls. What harm could it do? Thought Naruto.
"Sure that's fine by me you can come." Said Naruto.
"Thank you Naruto-kun." Said Hinata as she blushed.
"Let's try this again then" said Sasuke as they turned and walked back towards Ichiraku's again.
4 years later.
It is 1 week before graduation and all the students sat in class listening to Iruka lecture for the last time before they graduated. After the lecture was their graduation exam and team assignments and then they had the week off before the ceremony.
Over the years Naruto has now mastered the FTG on his father's level, along with finishing his wind style: Rasengan and showing his dad how he did it which enabled him to complete his own. Naruto also combined his lighting element to the Rasengan as well, which his dad has yet to accomplish. Naruto has picked up many wind, lightning, and water jutsu; deciding to be proficient in all 3 rather than master one while he is weak in the others.
Sasuke has also become very strong over the years. Aided by his brother Itachi, he has become a master of fire style techniques. He has also awoken his 1 tomoe sharingan. Sasuke has recently discovered that he has an affinity for lightning also, so Kakashi helped him along with some lightning jutsu. Sasuke and Naruto have worked together and complement each other greatly, with Naruto's wind and water, and Sasuke's fire and lighting. They have developed a few collaboration techniques and as a duo they are feared even by many jounin in the village.
Naruto's other friends have also gained much ground with their clan techniques as well as some other skills.
"Well, that's it everyone. We are officially done with lectures for the year. In a few moments myself and Mizuki sensei will begin to call you 2 at a time into the next room for your graduation exam. Everyone understand?" Said Iruka.
Meanwhile, at the Hokage's office.
"So have you considered my offer, Itachi." Said Minato.
"Yes Hokage-sama. While it is untraditional, it will allow me to keep my little brother and his best friend safer.
If you don't mind me asking though, why did you decide to do this?"
"Well, It's clear that Naruto and Sasuke are in a league of their own, and I fear that putting them on a normal genin team would inhibit their skills. I believe them to be high chunin, if not low jounin level already. They actually remind me of you at their age Itachi."
"Well Hokage-sama I would be honored to teach them alongside Kakashi."
"Thank you Itachi. You and Kakashi will meet them there at 5:00 PM today."
"Yes sir. Will there be anything further?"
"No, you are dismissed." And with that Itachi disappeared in a swirl of leaves.
Back at the Academy
Iruka stepped in the door and said "Namikaze, Uchiha, your turn. Come on."
Naruto and Sasuke got up and grinned at each other before walking down the stairs and out of the room with Iruka.
When they arrived in the testing room Mizuki called out "Namikaze you'll be with me." As Iruka said "That means I've got you Uchiha. For your graduation exam I want you to make 2 clones, and henge one into me. You may begin."
Sasuke smiled and 2 clones appeared at his side, one in the form of Iruka.
"Very impressive you made a bunshin with no hand seals. Good job Sasuke you pass." Said Iruka as he handed Sasuke a headband.
"Not just any bunshin. Being best friends with the village's leading expert on shadow clones has it's advantages." Said Sasuke with a smirk.
"Wow very good Sasuke that is a jounin level technique. Who is this expert you speak of?"
"You're looking at him." Said Naruto with a smirk of his own.
"Naruto?" Said Iruka "You are the so-called master of the kagebunshin?"
"Yep." Said Naruto as 3 clones suddenly appeared, one in the form of Iruka, one as Mizuki, and the last as Sasuke.
"Well then. You are both very impressive then. You pass too Naruto." Said Iruka as he handed Naruto a headband.
"Congratulations Naruto." Said Sasuke.
"You too. I didn't know you could do clones without seals yet though."
"Yea I've been keeping it a surprise." Said Sasuke as he smirked.
The two walked out of the room and back to an empty one near theirs to await the team announcements while Iruka and Mizuki continued the testing.
"So Sasuke, did you feel anything "off" about Mizuki-sensei?
"Yea, I did get a bad feeling about him. I wonder what he's up too?"
"I'm not sure but we should find out." Said Naruto with an evil grin as a clone appeared beside him.
Naruto reached up and whispered something to the clone and it disappeared in a flash of red.
Back at the Hokage's office
Minato sat at his desk taking break on one of the rare occasions that his paperwork was caught up when suddenly a red ball of light appeared in front of his desk.
"Naruto what are you doing here?"
The clone bowed and said "Hokage-sama, I am just a clone. Naruto told me to come inform you that there may be something going on with Mizuki-sensei."
"Care to elaborate on that?"
"Sir, both your son and Sasuke felt something off when they went in the room with him to take their final. They are not sure what is going on but felt that you should know just in case. Naruto also told me to request permission for him to investigate further into the issue."
"Alright, permission granted but make sure to be careful with it, and call if I am needed."
"Yes sir." Said the clone as it poofed away into smoke.
"Well well, just passed his genin final and you're already sending him off on an A-rank mission with only another genin." Said a voice from behind Minato.
"Yea Sensei, I have had some reports of strange behavior from Mizuki lately but nothing concrete. If those two were able to sense bad intentions from him then maybe they can get to the bottom of it. Besides, you forget that they will only be genin for a couple of weeks. We are going to field test them and promote them both as soon as possible."
"Yea yea politics and the what not." Said Jiraiya as he grinned at Minato.
Back at the academy
"So what's your plan Naruto?" Said Sasuke.
"Well, I feel as if he has something in mind for very soon. Possibly involving one of the genin candidates maybe?"
"You could be right but what would a jounin need a genin for?"
Naruto's eyes went wide as he said "Infiltration. He wants to trick one of the genin into getting something for him so he doesn't have to risk being caught. But who? And what does he want?"
"Good point Naruto. He is after something in the village and wants to manipulate someone into doing it for him to cut the risk."
"I have an idea." Said Naruto as a clone appeared beside him and henged into Kakashi and walked out the door.
"What was that about?"
"We need a list of all the genin who failed their exams I have an idea about who he wants and how to figure out what."
"Well there's a brain somewhere in there after all." Said Sasuke as he grinned and punched Naruto in the arm.
With Naruto's clone
'Kakashi' walked down the hallway until he got to the exam room. He knocked on the door and heard Iruka say "Enter."
'Kakashi' walked in and said "Iruka, may I have a word with you outside?"
"Sure Kakashi-san." Said Iruka as he got up and made his way to the hallway.
"So Kakashi, what is it that you wanted?"
"First of all this is a clone of Naruto, I am henged into Kakashi so I don't draw attention talking to you like this. What I came for is to ask you for a list of all the candidates who failed to pass the exam."
"Naruto I can't just hand that out it is confidential."
"It is under the order of the Hokage, we suspect Mizuki is up to something and are trying to figure out what it is. I need a list of all the candidates who fail the test so I can figure out who the target is."
"Okay Naruto I'll be right back with what we have so far."
"Okay."
Iruka walked into the room and returned a moment later with a piece of paper with several names written on it.
"Thank you Iruka-sensei. Here I want you to take this for now." Said Naruto as he handed Iruka a paper tag with a seal for the FTG on it. "If you find out anything about what he is up too, channel some chakra into that seal and ill come as soon as I can."
"Okay Naruto be careful." Said Iruka as 'Kakashi' walked off back towards the classroom.
Back in the classroom
Naruto and Sasuke were sitting there discussing more about Mizuki when suddenly the door opened and 'Kakashi' walked in and handed Naruto the paper.
"Well good job on that one Naruto." Said Sasuke as they looked at the paper.
Naruto quickly took a pen and copied the list of names and made another clone beside him.
"I need you to take this to the Hokage." Said Naruto.
"Yes sir." Said the clone as it walked out the door before disappearing in a red flash.
At the Hokage office
The clone appeared in front of Minato's desk as Minato said "What is it that you've found Naruto?"
"Sir, I have a list of names here that Naruto wishes to receive information about."
"What kind of information does he request?"
"Naruto wishes to know about the home-life of all of these people, as well as any past questionable acts or run-ins with ANBU."
"Okay I can do that hold on for just a minute." Said Minato as he turned to his computer and started typing before he printed off several pages and handed them to the clone. "This is what he seeks, it is for yours and Sasuke's eyes only and is to be destroyed after you finish."
"Yes sir." Said the clone as he flashed away.
"Well it looks like they are making progress, maybe you were right to allow them to do this." Said Jiraiya.
"Yes they are doing exceptionally well. Hopefully they will get to the bottom of it and stop whatever he has planned."
Back at the academy
Naruto's clone flashed in at the door then turned to walk inside and delivered the paper to Naruto.
"Thank you." Said Naruto as the clone dispelled. "Well Sasuke we got background reports on all of the names listed. Shall we?"
"They won't search themselves." Said Sasuke as he grabbed half of the stack and started looking for anything that looked different. He found 3 reports that were of interest to him and set them to the side.
Naruto also searched his stack and separated 2 reports from the rest. When he finished he looked to Sasuke and said "Well, I found 2 persons of interest. What about you?"
"I got three that are interesting." Said Sasuke as he handed the stack to Naruto.
Naruto looked over the 5 people for a moment before he said "I think this is the one right here." As he laid the paper on the desk.
"Akina Kasuki. 12 years old, orphaned. Both parents died on a mission 8 years ago. She has been caught by the ANBU on several occasions stealing from various booths in the market since she was kicked out of the orphanage when she turned 8 and started to the academy." Said Naruto as another clone appeared beside him. He wrote the girls name on a piece of paper and handed it to the clone. "I need you to go to Iruka and get this girl's progress report from the academy for the last 4 years."
"Yes sir." Said the clone as he walked to the hallway and henged into Kakashi again and went to the exam room.
He knocked on the door and stepped inside and said "Sorry to keep interrupting you Iruka but may I speak with you again?"
Iruka nodded and walked out to the hall with 'Kakashi'.
"What do you need Naruto?"
"I need the progress report for this girl for her 4 years at the academy. By the way you are sworn to secrecy about this matter as of now until we figure out what is going on."
"Okay follow me to my office and I'll get the report for you."
Iruka and 'Kakashi' walked down the hall to Iruka's office where he printed off a 4 year report on the girl and handed it to 'Kakashi who walked to the door as he changed back to Naruto and went inside and handed the papers to the real Naruto.
"Thank you." Said Naruto as the clone dispelled. "Well it appears that the girl struggled to stay afloat all throughout school but she did excel at stealth techniques and henge. That fits the person that Mizuki would need to infiltrate something. So now we have a 'who' we still need a 'what' though."
"I've got an idea for that. We need to find her, Mizuki will likely go after her once the exams are done. We need to find her first and have one of our clones henge into her. He will make his offer to her and then we will have our what. After that all we have to do is set a trap."
"Good idea. Seems I'm not the only one who has a brain at this table." Said Naruto as he laughed. "Let's pay a visit to the Hokage."
Naruto put his hand on Sasuke's shoulder and disappeared in a red flash only to reappear in front of the Hokage.
Sasuke bowed as Naruto said "Dad I think we found Mizuki's target, or at least part of it. We came to get your opinion before we continued on though."
"What have you learned?" Asked Minato.
"Well, there is a girl our age from another class, her name is Akina Kasuki. She is orphaned and was kicked out of the orphanage 4 years ago. Since then she has apparently turned to stealing to get by on. She struggled in the academy in all fields except stealth and the henge jutsu. We believe that Mizuki intends to manipulate her somehow into infiltrating somewhere to get something for him. That way he is out of the fire so to speak.
We plan on talking to this Akina girl and then henging into her so that when Mizuki comes to offer the deal we will know what he wants, as well as gain evidence against him." Said Naruto.
"Very well you have my approval on the matter. You two have done exceptional on this, especially for only being genin for less than 2 hours." Said Minato with a grin. "You may leave now, report back with any findings."
"Yes sir." Said both boys as they disappeared in a flash of red.
"Damn Minato you better watch it he's gunning for your job hard now. That's a damn impressive investigation judging from his report. You were definitely right to let them go ahead with this." Said Jiraiya.
"Yea I know, it makes me proud both as a father and as the Hokage. My boy will be a damn fine Hokage when his time comes." Said Minato as he smiled big.
Back in the village with Naruto and Sasuke.
Naruto and Sasuke were looking for the address they found for the girl in one of the not-so-nice neighborhoods in Konoha. After about 10 minutes of looking they found the house they were looking for and knocked on the door.
"One minute please." Said a feminine voice that sounded sad.
A second later a young girl that looked like the picture of Akina, only less healthy and a bit older, opened the door and quickly stepped out and shut the door. "How may I help you today?"
"Are you Akina Kasuki?" Asked Sasuke in a friendly voice.
"Yes, why?"
"We would like to talk to you for a moment if you don't mind. How about some lunch?" Said Naruto.
"Umm…" Akina.
"My treat. So how about it?"
"Umm… Sure that will be fine. I'll be right back okay?" Said Akina as she quickly opened the door and disappeared and then a moment later came back looking like she cleaned up a bit.
"So Akina, what would you like to eat?" Said Naruto.
"Anything is fine with me … I just realized I never got your names. I'm Sorry." Said Akina as she looked down at the ground.
"Oh sorry where are our manners. My name is Naruto Namikaze and this is my friend Sasuke Uchiha. But anyways, you pick anywhere you want to go and we will follow."
"You mean Naruto Namikaze the son of the Fourth? And Sasuke Uchiha, the brother of Itachi Uchiha? You two are quite famous among genin and academy students." Said Akina as she led them into a BBQ joint a few blocks from her house, in the 'nicer' area of the neighborhood.
"Yea that's us, but we are just normal people. Regular genins, so don't try to treat us as special or anything please." Said Sasuke.
They all sat down at a table and ordered their food as they talked a bit about nothing. Once the food came Naruto ran through a couple of hand seals as a barrier of red chakra formed around them and disappeared as Akina looked at him fearfully.
"Don't worry Akina, it was just a privacy jutsu. As we said earlier we need to talk to you about some sensitive issues."
"Like what?"
"Well Akina, to begin, we are led to believe that Mizuki-sensei plans to use you for something. What we are not sure yet but that's why we came to talk to you. Mizuki hasn't spoken to you since the exam has he?" Asked Naruto.
"No, he hasn't. Wait yes, right after my exam he told me that he would give me a chance to retest. He told me to meet him at training ground 18 at 8:00 PM tonight. Does that have anything to do with what you guys want?"
"Yes it does Akina. He was lying to you about the retest. You can only retest in the academy. 3 days from now they will have a retest and you can take it then. But tonight he was trying to get you in trouble. If you agree to help us we will help you pass your exam and graduate with us Friday. Sound good?"
"What do you need me to do?"
"We need your permission to henge into you and go to this meeting with Mizuki. If you agree we can find out his plan and stop him as well as get evidence against him." Said Sasuke.
"Okay I agree. Thank you guys so much for keeping me out of trouble. I get into enough of it on my own" Said Akina as she frowned and looked like she was about to cry.
"Akina, I want you to take this" said Naruto as he pulled out some money "and get a hotel for now. If for some reason we fail to capture Mizuki then he will know where you live and may try to harm you. So there is plenty of money there for a hotel room and some food for 2 days. If something happens we can go from there. Thanks for your help. We will each leave a clone to help you get a couple of things from home if you need, as well as to let us know where you're staying so we can find you if we need to talk anymore."
With that they finished eating and each left a clone with Akina and flashed away to the Hokage's office.
"Hello again boys what have you found now?"
"We found the girl and spoke with her. She said that Mizuki promised her a chance to retest if she met him at training ground 18 at 8PM. I will henge into her and attend the meeting to find out Mizuki's objective as well as gain concrete evidence. Once I get what I need I will give a sign and Naruto will capture him. How does that sound Hokage-sama?" Said Sasuke.
"Excellent plan boys. As I said you have my full support."
"Thanks Dad."
"Thank you sir." As both boys disappeared again and reappeared at Naruto's house which was not far from training ground 18.
They started to walk over to the training ground to inspect it and lay a trap for Mizuki.
7:30 that night.
Naruto and Sasuke had just finished going over the plan again and Sasuke henged into Akina and made his way over to a large rock on the edge of the field as Naruto sat on the roof of his home with a pair of binoculars waiting for the signal. A few minutes later Mizuki came walking into the training ground and over to 'Akina'.
"I'm glad you came Akina. Are you ready for your test?"
'Akina' nodded her head and said "Yes sensei, what do I have to?"
"What you are to do is to break into the jutsu archive in the Hokage tower and get the scroll of forbidden seals. Once you get it, if you can learn any one jutsu from the scroll you will pass. There is a clearing 1 mile northwest of the village. I will be waiting there for you at 2:00AM. If you can learn a jutsu from the scroll and demonstrate it to me by 2:00, then you will pass and be a genin. Do you understand?"
"Yes." Said 'Akina' as she bowed deeper than normal to Mizuki. At that exact moment there was a bright flash of red light in front of Mizuki as he was sent flying backwards from a fist in his gut. Before he knew what happened there was another flash behind him and he was drove into the ground hard, forming a small crater around his body. No sooner than he hit a giant white hot fire ball was sent flying at him. He noticed it in time and ran through some hand seals and yelled "Earth style: Earth dome!" as a dome of mud encased him. He let the dome fall and jumped out onto the ground and looked around but found no one around, when suddenly a red flash appeared infront of him and kicked him high into the air. As he was flying up Naruto started going through some hand seals and focusing his chakra, while Sasuke jumped above Mizuki and kicked him down sending him flying towards the earth. As soon as he hit Sasuke was on him again and axe kicked him in the stomach sending him further down into a crater. As soon as he stood up to walk out he was surrounded by a ball of water as Naruto said "Water style: Water prison jutsu.". Sasuke then walked up to the dome and looked at Mizuki as Mizuki yelled "You little bastards you're just genin how the hell did you beat me?!"
"Well first of all, we're no ordinary genin." Said Sasuke.
"And second, even the mightiest of warriors can be brought down with a good strategy. You didn't even know who we were until we caught you and I revealed myself." Said Naruto.
With that Naruto dropped the water prison and instantly appeared behind Mizuki and hit a pressure point on his neck, knocking him out instantly. Sasuke quickly tied him up and kicked him in the ribs for good measures. Naruto walked up and put one hand on Sasuke's shoulder and another on Mizuki as they disappeared in a red flash.
Minato looked up as a red flash appeared in his room and as it faded he seen his son and Sasuke standing over an unconscious Mizuki. They explained what was going on to him before an ANBU walked out and took the prisoner to a holding cell.
"Great job catching this traitor boys. You guarded one of the biggest secrets of our village by taking him out. I'm proud of you both. Now here is your pay for an S-rank mission."
"Thank you Hokage-sama it was our honor to catch this scum who would take advantage of a poor girl with a broken spirit."
"Thanks Dad, and Sasuke is right. He is a piece of shit for trying to prey on her emotions. She's got it hard Dad, is there anything we can do to help her?"
"Well, I guess could give her pay for an S-rank since she had a part in this mission as well."
"Well if that's the case I'd like to put a bounty on Mizuki and pretend that we were never hear and that she brought him in." Said Naruto as he handed his money back to his dad.
"Same goes for me; I'll match Naruto's bounty. Shall we deliver the pay as well as the bounty to Akina sir?"
"Yes that will be fine Sasuke, you and Naruto report back here at 8AM tomorrow to receive her package. By the way that was a very mature thing to do, both of you. I'm so proud of both of you."
