Grinning slightly at the thought of the exciting mission to come Mito joined the rest of their team as they set off heading in the direction of the coast, where they would be meeting a friend of Tazuna's who would take them over to the island of Wave.
The part of the coast they were headed to was a popular crossing point, as it was at this point that the Island of Wave was closest to the Elemental Nation's mainland.
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(Barely an hour later with Naruto)
Leaping silently from tree to tree Naruto, Clementine and Victor made great speed as they moved parallel to a dirt road. They were headed for the nearby coastline, the point at which it was easiest to cross due to how close the Island of Wave was to the mainland at that point.
It was so close in fact that a Shinobi could use 'Water Walking' and run the distance. This was much better than if they had used another point along the coast, as then they would have had to run across the water in two stages due to the chakra usage and continuous amount of control needed.
The silence they were travelling in was soon broken by Clementine. The blonde girl came to a sudden stop on a nearby branch causing both Naruto and Victor to come to a stop too.
"What's up?" Naruto asked instantly, knowing Clementine wouldn't just stop for any reason.
"Shinobi up ahead." Clementine her eyes narrowed as she glared forward. "Two of them and they're not moving."
"Some kind of ambush?" Naruto asked as he unsealed his axe, the comforting feel of the axe in his hand helping him focus as he closed his eyes, channeling his chakra to them before opening them again, as he did so his crimson irises glowed slightly.
Looking in the direction Clementine was almost everything appeared in shades of grey, everything of course but the souls of the living. Flicking his eyes back and forth Naruto dismissed some of the smaller glowing blue shapes that ran around the forest, birds, hares, foxes ... Looking up ahead though he could see two larger shapes in the distance, these ones were in the shape of men.
They glowed brightly showing that they had more chakra than an average human and they had dark flecks floating around in them, something that usually signified Shinobi. Something was a bit strange though, he also could see a small black seal on their glowing chests, and the seal seemed to be restricting the men's chakra.
Closing his eyes again Naruto stopped channeling his chakra to them; this meant that when he opened them his vision returned to normal. Looking over to Clementine he spoke. "You're right, two Shinobi about mid-chunin level in strength, though from the looks of it someone has stuck a seal on them, stopping them from using their chakra."
"So not an ambush then?" Victor concluded as he looked from Naruto to Clementine. "What do we do?"
"We question them of course find out what happened, and if they have a bounty we take their heads if not…" Naruto replied a thoughtful expression on his face. "We kill them anyway, remember no witnesses if possible."
"Sounds good." Clementine said as she once again set of moving, both Victor and Naruto following after her.
Soon enough they made it two the two incapacitated Shinobi, all here of them appearing in front of the tree the two were tied to.
"Well look at our luck." Naruto spoke out as he looked down at the tied up Shinobi. "If it isn't the Demon Brothers, what are Zabuza's little bitches doing so far away from their boss?"
The brothers glared up at Naruto for that comment but otherwise stayed silent.
"Looks like we hit the jackpot, these two will have plenty of information about Zabuza and what he's up to. Plus they each have a bounty on their heads, it's not much but it will at least pay for a few rounds at Mina's place." Naruto continued as he looked down at the two men.
"We aren't telling you fuckers anything! You might as well just kill us!" One of the brothers snarled the other one just stoically glaring up at them.
"It's a good thing then that we don't need you to cooperate then isn't it." Naruto replied before without any warning he swung his axe, beheading both Shinobi at the same time, their heads hitting the ground with a dull thump, a shock expression on each of their faces.
As Naruto did that two chakra chains burst out of his left palm, slamming into the now headless Demon Brother's chests before Naruto ripped them out his chains wrapped around both of their souls as he retracted them, absorbing both of their souls as he did so.
Collapsing in on themselves both of the soon disintegrated, the restriction of their chakra making it so they had absolutely no protection against Naruto's own deadly chakra which meant that after a few seconds all that was left of the Demon Brother's of the Mist were their heads, and a pile of grey dust.
"Fucking cowards." Naruto muttered contemptuously a he looked down at their severed heads.
"Well shit what crawled up your arse and died?" Clementine asked her pink eyes slightly wide as she saw how brutally Naruto ended the incapacitated brothers.
"They were traitors; they abandoned Kiri and the rebellion first chance they got. They didn't even look back." Naruto replied as he closed his eyes and contacted You, absorbing the memories that were recovered from the devoured soul.
They were getting better at it, being able to get more and more from the souls. Soon enough Naruto was hoping that they would be able to absorb all of a Shinobi's memories, but that was a way off at the moment.
"Good point." Victor replied nodding along with Naruto. He too had also heard of the brothers. They had fled Kiri with Zabuza, soon after the swordsman had tried to assassinate the Mizukage. He had of course failed and run off fleeing the Land of Water as fast as he could. The brother's had merely followed him, only they had never taken a stand instead they had run out of fear.
"Still seems a bit much." Clementine added in. "Tell me are you so pissed off because they betrayed Kiri or is it because they betrayed Mei."
"Turns out the sources were right. Zabuza is in the Land of Wave, working for that Gatou. But apparently he has an apprentice. Some girl who thinks it is fun to play dress up by pretending to be a Hunter-nin." Naruto said as he crouched down and sealed up the Demon Brother's heads. "It also appears that the bridge builder, this Tazuna has some Shinobi protection."
Naruto frowned deeply as he said that, the memories he had seen, had him concerned.
"Anything that we should be worried about?" Clementine asked as she stopped her teasing, sensing his discomfort.
"Maybe." Naruto replied still frowning as he focused on the memories he had received, he recognised three of the four Shinobi protecting Tazuna and he was for once unsure on how to act. "The bridge builder is guarded by the Copy Ninja Kakashi Hatake and his genin team. The team includes Mito Namikaze, Sasuke Uchiha and some no named girl who I don't recognise."
"Hmm, sounds like trouble." Victor replied a thoughtful expression on his face.
"What seriously?!" Clementine asked incredulously. "Kakashi maybe tough but the three of us together are more than enough to take him. As for the genin they wouldn't stand a chance, we could butcher them with ease!"
"No!" Naruto snapped harshly as he turned to Clementine, the blonde haired girl's eyes widening as she heard the dangerous note in Naruto's tone. Letting out a sigh Naruto forced himself to calm down.
"It is more complicated than that. These aren't just any Shinobi, they have connections. Mito Namikaze is the daughter of the Fourth Hokage. Whilst Sasuke Uchiha is the younger brother of Itachi Uchiha."
In reality Naruto would not really care if he had to kill Kakashi he had never really interacted with the man. As such he didn't really care whether he lived or died.
The same to a certain extent could be said for Sasuke. Naruto didn't really know the boy, but he did know his brother Itachi. He also knew that there was something odd about the Uchiha massacre, Itachi wasn't the type of person who enjoyed suffering or taunting his enemies.
So then why would he leave his brother alive, unless he had a specific reason for sparing him. What that reason was Naruto didn't know, but what he did know is that he wouldn't want Itachi as an enemy.
As for Mito he would not allow anything to happen to the girl, she was his sister and he loved her. This meant that even if he had to fight his own team off he wouldn't allow anything to happen to her. Though hopefully it wouldn't come to that as he loved and trusted his team implicitly just as they did the same for him.
The pink haired girl whoever she was, was a nonentity, Naruto wouldn't care what happened to her.
"I doubt Itachi Uchiha would really care about what happens to his brother considering he massacred his entire Clan. Though I do see you point about the Fourth Hokage. Even all three of us going all out wouldn't stand a chance against him." Victor added in with a sagely nod to Naruto.
"Yeah aright I will agree with that to." Clementine also said even if it was grudgingly. "But then what do we do if these Konoha tree huggers interfere in our mission."
"Simple if they don't interfere we leave them alone. If they do interfere we do as Mei said, we neutralize them. Though I warn you now the red haired girl and the black haired boy are not to be harmed. Well the black haired boy can be harmed just not to badly… well okay as long as you leave him alone that is fine."Naruto replied with a shrug, making his order clear for his team mates. Mito is off limits, the others are free game but only if they interfere.
"What the fuck is it with you and red heads!" Clementine asked irritably even as both she and Victor agreed to do as he said. Naruto had never steered them wrong before and they very much doubted his caution over this Konoha team was unwarranted.
"I don't know what you mean." Naruto sniffed looking away from Clementine as he did so.
"She does have a point; you do seem to have an unhealthy fascination with our Mizukage, and now with the Namikaze girl…?" Victor added in with a slight grin at Naruto's discomfort.
"I do not have an unhealthy fascination with the Mizukage we simply have a good working relationship." Naruto replied irritably as he jumped up into the trees, not even dignifying the comment about his sister with a response.
"Ha! Good working relationship she pretty much lets you get away with murder. Seriously the way she dotes on you sometimes makes it seem like the two of you are banging.
Whilst you are always getting pissed off whenever anyone says anything negative and are like obsessed with following her rules." Clementine mocked as both she and Victor followed Naruto into the trees.
"I am not having relations with the Mizukage!" Naruto shouted in response before adding on a barely heard. "Unfortunately" at the end,
"Oh and Clementine you do know Mei is our Mizukage you are supposed to follow all her orders and defend her. IT is kind of our jobs as Kiri Shinobi…" Naruto added on with a deadpan.
"Yeah shut up I know that!" Clementine responded even as she stopped mocking Naruto.
"Well at least now she does!" Victor cackled as the table turned on Clementine.
"Oh go steal a dick!" Clementine shouted in response.
"Why don't you go eat a dick?!" Victor snapped back with a grin.
"You offering?" Clementine replied slyly as she bared her teeth at her two male teammates.
Instantly the both of them flinched as their hands moved to cover their privates.
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