Hey Everyone! Sorry for not updating in a while. I actually finished most of this chapter a couple of days after the last one but I couldn't come up with a good endpoint to stop it at. This chapter is about an important event that effects the story and marks the beginning of something in the future.

Enjoy the chapter!

In the forests of River Country near the border of the Land of Rain, Naruto and another Chunin were in the trees overlooking what they first believed was to be a bandit camp.

"We need to call for reinforcements immediately! We can't go up against 5 Jonin by ourselves!" Naruto whispered roughly to his team mate on his current mission.

Naruto's team mate just scoffed. "We don't need reinforcements, even if we did it would be too late for the woman in the tent down there that the missing-nin are having 'fun' with right now" he reasoned with arrogance as he talked about not needing reinforcements.

Naruto sighed at his team mates reasoning and thought about it. "I guess you're right but we still need to come up with a plan to defeat them, or escape with the woman"

"We got the advantage with them not knowing we're here! I can't defeat them all before they even realize what's coming!" he spoke with an arrogant smirk before jumping out of the tree and running towards the tent. He was soon discovered though as the five Jonin left the tent and attacked him.

Naruto looked at the situation with wide eyes at the foolishness of his team mate. He was right at saying they had the advantage of surprise, but that was quickly gone when he didn't stay to make a plan and he just ran out there expecting them not to sense them. What could Naruto do to deserve for this mission to go so horribly wrong.

[Flash Back- A year after Naruto transplanted Mikoto's eyes into himself]

Naruto sighed in thought as he headed towards the Hokage's office after receiving a note from the Sandaime to meet him immediately after the academy. Hiruzen had been bugging him to become a Genin so he could take missions and get experience, but he keeps denying it as Itachi asked him to watch over Sasuke and the best way to do that was to graduate the same time he did. There was also a part of him that wanted to graduate with Rias as well but he pushed that aside at the moment.

By the end of his thought Naruto arrived at the double doors that was the Hokage's office and without waiting for approval he opened them and walked in.

Hiruzen looked up and smiled warmly at Naruto and gestured for him to sit down in one of the chairs in front of the desk.

"Welcome Naruto-kun. Have you changed your mind on becoming a Genin early?" he asked even though he knew the answer.

"No Jiji, I want to become a Genin when everyone else in my age group become Genin"

"I thought so, I still have to try you know. I got a compromise for you then Naruto and it doesn't involve you becoming Genin" Hiruzen informed him.

Naruto raised an eyebrow at this. His interest was peaked and Hiruzen noticed that. "What kind of compromise?"

"I knew that would gain you interest. Anyways the mission you took with Shisui went well even though it turned out to be a higher ranked mission you still did splendid. What I want you to offer you is that you can take missions I need your help on if there isn't anybody else I can provide. You will get paid for these missions and the mission will be put in your file so when you become a Genin you already have mission experience. This will also help you towards becoming Chunin when the time comes, So what do you say? Can you take missions before you become a Genin?" Hiruzen asked with a grin as he got the feeling Naruto would say yes.

Naruto thought over the offer for a couple of seconds which soon turned into minutes which soon turned into a half-hour. "Alright I'll take missions for you. Is there any missions you need me to be on at the moment?" Naruto asked.

Hiruzen's lips turned into a grin again after he lost it five minutes after he asked his question. "Perfect! And yes I do have a mission for you Naruto-kun. It's just a simple C-Rank and all you have to do is accompany a team of Chunin and observe how they do things. I can't have you immediately start missions without knowing how they work now can I?" Hiruzen said with a laugh. "By the way, why did it take you so long to answer my offer?"

Naruto gave him a confused look but you could see mirth in his eyes. "What do you mean Jiji? I came up with an after a couple of seconds" Hiruzens eyes widened at this. "I just wanted to see your knowing grin drop and wait a while after that to make you nervous hehe" Naruto admitted.

Hiruzen gave Naruto a small glare before laughing as well. "Well how about we talk about this mission?"

It was around two months later did Naruto get the mission he was currently on.

Walking into the Hokage's office with his Mask and Hood on, Naruto saw that Hiruzen was with another shinobi; a Chunin Naruto guessed that he was his team mate for this mission.

"Alright you two I have a simple C-Rank mission for you two... Well it isn't really simple as the mayor of one of the cities in the Land of Fire near the border of the Land of Rivers had his daughter kidnapped by what he believes to be bandits taken back to their camp in the Land of Rivers near the boarder of the Land of Rain. Even though the mayor believes they are bandits, I want you two to be careful as I highly doubt that bandits would kidnap woman and bring them across the boarder, I believe there might be missing-nin in the camp that did the deed. I don't have anyone else at the moment that can take this mission other than you two. Your mission is to locate this camp, save the woman captured and eliminate the bandits and/or missing-nin. Do you understand?" receiving two nods he smile "Alright you both will leave immediately"

"Hai Hokage-sama!" the two then left the room and went towards the western gate.

[Flash Back End]

Naruto quickly shook of his thoughts as he saw two of the missing-nin prepare for a collaboration jutsu. Jumping out on to the battle field to prevent the combined jutsu from hitting his team mate but he was too late as the two Jonin's finished their hand seals and called out their jutsu.

"Katon: Grand Fireball no jutsu!"

"Fuuton: Great Breakthrough!"

The combined fire and wind jutsu turned the already huge fireball huger and hotter as it turned white.

"JUMP OUT OF THE WAY!" Naruto yelled out as he prepared a Suiton jutsu to at least try and counter the jutsu but couldn't finish as the fireball was already upon his team mate. His team mate didn't even have time to scream as he was disintegrated from the heat.

Naruto looked at the still oncoming fireball with horror at what it just did to his team mate. Pushing back the feeling of shock he quickly finished his Suiton jutsu and called out.

"Suiton: Wild Water Wave!" he roared out as he used a good chunk of his chakra to create a water source as the wave of water hit the white fireball creating a huge amount of steam.

Using the steam as cover Naruto activated his Sharingan as he ran towards his opponents. Arriving at his first target, a missing-nin from Iwa. Quickly engaging the shinobi in Taijutsu Naruto quickly realized that was the wrong decision as the Iwa shinobi had activated some kind of rock armor before he had arrived. Quickly disengaging from his opponent Naruto began to process a way to get through the rock before jumping to the side to avoid a missing-nin from Kumo who had both hands covered in electricity.

"You're good kid I'd admit that. This jutsu I have here is a copy of Kakashi Hatake's famous chidori though it's not as effective as his" the shinobi from Kumo explained.

Naruto looked at the lightning covered hands in thought before an idea came to him.

"Perfect!"

"What are you talking about kid" the Kumo shinobi asked as he charged. "Back in Kumo I was given the moniker 'The Shocker'" he explained.

Naruto froze for a second before he dodge a punch from both the Iwa and Kumo Shinobi before he started laughing. "T-The Shocker! blahaha. That has got to be the worst moniker I have ever heard!"

"WHY YOU!" the Kumo shinobi yelled out in anger as he once again charged Naruto. Quickly coming a couple of yards away from Naruto, Naruto cast a Sharingan Genjutsu on the Iwa shinobi that was aout to attack him from behind to make it seem like he was the Kumo shinobi and the Kumo shinobi was him. The Iwa shinobi changed directions and charged towards the charging Kumo shinobi.

"Squinch!" the sound of a fist going through bone and skin came to the ears of the two shinobi. The charging Kumo shinobi couldn't change directions in time to avoid piercing his Iwa comrade through the heart in which killed him.

"WHY YOU BRA...!" the Kumo shinobi didn't get to finish as Naruto took his surprise and anger as an advantage to take out his Tanto and decapitate him.

"Doton: Earth Dragon no jutsu!" another missing-nin from Iwa called out as he had been watching the entire time preparing his jutsu and his chakra.

A huge Earth Dragon erupted out of the ground as it flew towards Naruto who had began going through his own hand seals.

"Raiton: Gien!" Naruto called out as he aimed his hand towards the Earth Dragon as a bolt of lightning left it which soon destroyed the massive dragon. He had to once again go through hand seals as the Suna and other Kumo shinobi redid the collaboration wind and fire jutsu.

"Katon: Grand Fireball no jutsu/Fuuton: Great Breakthrough!" once again the combined jutsu created a massive white fireball.

Naruto finished his own set of hand seals as he activated his Mangekyo. He remembered when he first realized what he could do with one of Mikoto's Mangekyo jutsu while training his EMS.

[Flash Back]

Naruto was currently using his EMS as he used Tsukuyomi on a clone of his. He was trying to expand the amount of time in the jutsu. He could currently only do 24 hours in 1 second.

"Hey boss! Why don't we try out Amaterasu and see how we are doing in it?" his clone that he was practicing on asked.

"Alright it wouldn't do to waste all my chakra on a single jutsu that I don't need at the moment anyways" and for the next few hours Naruto spammed out using Amaterasu and putting the black flames out. With the amount of chakra he used after a couple of hours he only had enough chakra for one last use of Amaterasu. He was about to summon the flames again until the clone he never bothered to dispel stopped him.

"Hey boss why don't you try using the Amaterasu flames in a jutsu?" the clone asked.

"Because the flames of Amaterasu like you should already know, don't shoot out of the eye but where ever eye look at will instantly catch fire. I can't use Amaterasu in a jutsu if it works that way and you know that"

The Naruto clone just rubbed the side of his head as he thought of something. "Yeah but what if you summoned the flames inside of you? Instead of molding normal fire chakra you could just mold the Amaterasu flames!" the clone explained.

Naruto's eye's widened at the explanation. "Why Haven't I thought of that?"

"Eerr... you kind of did boss. I am a clone of you after all!"

"Your right! I'm a genius!

After going through some hand seals and creating and focusing the Amaterasu flames he called out his new jutsu.

[Flash Back End]

"Amaterasu: Grand Fireball no jutsu!" Naruto yelled out as he spewed out a huge black fireball that matched the size of the white fireball heading towards him. As the two powerful fireballs collided they were fighting for dominance for a couple of seconds before the white hot flames of the white fireball was absorbed into the black one making a swirling mix of black and white flames that if they weren't in a fight at the moment they would enjoy the view. After absorbing the flames the now more powerful fireball exploded towards the two Jonin that created the white fireball incinerating them before they could even scream... or maybe they did scream but the roar of the flames of the explosion snuffed them out.

Naruto then turned to the last missing-nin that now seemed to be nervous as their hands kept shaking and kept messing up the hand seals for what ever jutsu they were planning on using. Naruto used Shunshin to appear behind the Jonin and Decapitated him.

Looking around the battlefield he now realized that they moved farther away from the tents they started out from and he was glad for that as the fire jutsu thrown around most likely would have caught the tents on fire. He looked at the area his team mate died and saw clumps of melted metal on the burnt ground, most likely his weapons and head band. after creating a clone to collect the heads of the remaining bodies of the Jonin Naruto walked over to the tent and went inside so he can release the girls.

What he saw next would forever be ingrained into his brain with or without the Sharingan. In the large tent he walked into he saw 13 naked woman from the ages 13 to 26. Some were chained to the ground next to sleeping bags, and others to each other. Some of them had bruises on them along with some cuts from most likely trying to escape and fight back. Along with the injuries what made Naruto boil in anger was that they were all covered in sperm and they were trying their best to cover themselves as they cried.

Naruto raised up his hands along with the Tanto he had in a gesture saying that he meant no harm. "I mean no harm. I came hear to rescue all of you. I am now going to cut the chains off of you guys alright?" after a couple moments the girls hesitantly nodded as they couldn't speak do to being gagged.

Naruto then started walking around to each of the woman and using wind chakra to make his Tanto sharper cut through the chains along with taking off the gags. He came up to the oldest woman after freeing them all and asked. "I'm sorry that you all had to go through this. Did they do anything or 'take' away anything from you?" Naruto asked meaning did they rape any of them. He expected her to say yes considering that they were all covered in sperm.

"N-No... they had a fetish for masturbating looking at us, using are breasts, or making us make out with each other otherwise we'd die. They said they would save the 'best' for last as they also had a fetish for raping mentally broken woman that didn't care anymore, you saved us before they could actually rape any of us. Thank You!" She bowed and thanked Naruto but still tried to cover herself.

Naruto saw that they were all trying to clean themselves so he took it upon himself to use a small Suiton jutsu to wash off everything away from the girls and then went and brought their clothes he saw in another tent. After all the woman were dressed Naruto burned down the tents and gathered the woman into a group.

"I'm once again sorry this had happened to you and I wish it didn't" Naruto said in a sad tone. "But I still need to know which one of you is the daughter from the mayor of the Land of Fire?"

A girl that looked like she was 14, a year older than Naruto came out from the back and looked at Naruto with some tears in her eyes. "That is me... My name is Toriana Chibanu. W-What is your name?" she asked.

Naruto blinked not realizing that he hadn't introduced himself. "Oh sorry about that. My name is Naruto Uzumaki and I'm from Konoha. I was sent here to rescue everyone and to bring everyone back to the city they live. Are you the only one from the Land of Fire?"

The 23 year old woman he talked to earlier stepped up. I'm also from the Land of Fire"

Naruto nodded. "Do any of you know where they were taking you?"

Toriana spoke up. "T-They were talking about an organization in the Land of Rain called DayBreak or something. They were going to use us to try and get into the organization, that is all I know s-sorry"

Naruto shook his hands in front of him. "No, No that is a really big help actually. But first I need to get you all back home. I will create a Kage Bunshin to take the two of you" he said pointing at Toriana and the 23 year old "back to the Land of Fire since you are the smaller group. I will personally take the other 11 back to the nearby town in the Land of Rivers to get them back home. Alright let's get going everyone!" Naruto calls out.

For the next few hours Naruto made conversation with the woman while traveling at civilian speeds to the town where all the woman were kidnapped from. He became friends with Toriana as he talked about Konoha and how he wasn't an actual Leaf Shinobi yet but the Sandaime is allowing him to do missions. Toriana explained her life as the mayors daughter and that in the future she will be allowed to take over position as mayor due to the fact that her father is getting sick and he will sadly pass away soon.

Once arriving in town Naruto takes the woman to the town police force for help while he gets the memories of his clone that took Toriana to the mayors house.

The mayor thanked him profusely and kept on urging him to stay for dinner but Naruto knew he couldn't stay as he had to get back to Konoha to report the status of the mission and his dead team mate so he repeatedly politely declined... along with the fact that he was just a bunshin. The mayor offered that he could return whenever he wants and if he needs anything just ask him.

Afterwards Naruto headed into the Bounties office and walked up to one of the desks ignoring the other people in the room collecting bounties.

"I would like to cash in three bounties sir!" Naruto requested. Naruto was currently wearing Black pants and Black shinobi sandals along with a tight blue shirt. Strapped to his back was his own Tanto. He didn't wear any head band over his head since he wasn't a shinobi yet, but he did wear a blank mask that covered his face and a black cloak.

The middle aged man behind the desk looked up at Naruto wondering how someone so young looking he assumed by the height got any bounties. "Alright kid what do you got?"

Naruto pulled out a sealing scroll and channeled chakra into it causing a small poof to appear before clearing showing three heads. "I got three shinobi bounties here. It would have been five but I accidentally incinerated the other two!" Naruto sheepishly chuckled.

Everyone in the bounties office looked at Naruto in shock at how he could get five shinobi bounties at his age. Unknowingly Naruto got the attention of a masked individual in the back of the office that you could only see there head but not their face.

The middle aged man snapped out of his shock and pulled open his drawer and pulled at a bag of money and handed it over to Naruto after checking the amount of money from the bounties. "Here boy. This is 30,360 Yen!"

Naruto's eyes winded at that not expecting it to be so much but thanked the man anyways and left the shop never noticing the same masked man that was in the office following him wearing a black cloak with red clouds.

After about an hour of traveling in the Land of Rivers heading towards the Land of Fire Naruto suddenly hears a voice behind him and he jumps to the left dodging the attack.

"Katon: Searing Migraine!" the voice shouted.

Naruto lands on a branch opposite of the attacker once the attacker stops.

"Who are you and why are you attacking me?!" Naruto yelled out.

The attacker just goes through more hand seals before calling out another jutsu.

"Suiton: Water Dragon bullet!"

Naruto quickly jumps away and goes through his own hand seals and calls out his own jutsu.

"Katon: Fire Dragon bullet!" a dragon made of fire flew out of Naruto's mouth at high speeds as it collided with the water dragon.

Naruto knowing he had no chance against his attacker as he only had half of his chakra reserves at the moment from his mission, he infused the mist produced from the attacks to make it last longer and he used his fastest Shunshin to try and escape.

'So the boy used chakra to keep the mist in the air longer... impressive. Too bad it won't be enough!' "Fuuton: Gale Palm!" Naruto's attacker called out blowing away the mist. Not seeing Naruto in sight he quickly gave chase.

Naruto was a pretty far distance away when his attacker gave chase and Naruto decided to use the little time he had before his attacker was upon him to create a dozen Iwa Kage Bunshin to make fake trails to give him more time to escape.

After the clones were they all vanished in a blur as they each went in a different direction. After the clones left Naruto continued the direction he was going and after a couple seconds he felt his attacker stop at where he just was before turning and heading towards one of his clones directions. The reason Naruto used Iwa Kage Bunshin was because when the bunshin are dispelled they dispel just like regular Iwa Bunshin which gives him the advantage as it doesn't give his attacker information on which village he was from and his attacker doesn't know that he gains the memories of the bunshin dispelled letting him know where the attacker is.

[Five Hours Later]

It had been five hours since the chase began and Naruto was starting to get tired. He was covered in blood as he had encountered the shinobi a couple of times as his attacker had destroyed the bunshin he created multiple time already as he had to continuously recreate them. One of his clones got a good look at the shinobi before he was dispelled and one of the other bunshin used the information to look him up in the bingo books and what he discovered caused him to have a heart attack that caused him to have a heart attack which made him dispel. After Naruto received the information he also nearly had a heart attack.

His attack was none other than Kakuzu the Bounty Hunter. An S-Rank Missing-nin from the Hidden Village Takigakure. It also mentioned that Kakuzu fought the Shodaime Hokage and lived and that further convinced Naruto that he had no chance.

Naruto was currently resting as Kakuzu was chasing after once of his bunshin quite a distance away. Naruto's clothes were covered in dirt and burned marks along with tears in them from his encounters with Kakuzu and luckily enough his hood and mask were still intact which still covered his face and hair helping him conceal his identity. Naruto took this moment to remember a lesson Shisui taught him when he was 10.

[Flash Back- Naruto is 10 years old]

Naruto had an excited and giddy grin on his face as he ran towards the training ground that he and Shisui regularly use. Today Shisui decided to take him on a small mission supervised under him.

Running onto the field Naruto ran over to where Shisui leaned against a tree.

"Shisui-sensei!" Naruto called out. "What type of mission are we doing today?"

Shisui smiled at the enthusiasm is student had before his face turned serious at what his previous thoughts pertaining Naruto. Shisui put his hand on Naruto's head as he ruffled his hair and gave Naruto a small smile.

"Today I will take you on a C-Rank mission to eliminate a bandit camp. C-Ranks are usually reserved for experience Genin or Chunin but since I'm going to be with you it won't matter. But before we go I need you to listen to me about something" Shisui spoke waiting for Naruto to answer.

"Hai! What is it that you wanted to tell me?" Naruto asked with a tilt of his head.

"It's about your future as a shinobi. Even though you still have four years until you are one you can never be over prepared. Whenever you are alone on a mission a being chased by enemies that either outmatch you or outnumber you and they don't know your identity or affiliation then I want you to physically change your appearance or do something to change how you look. If the enemy doesn't know who you are, what your truly look like or even who you work with then that can put you at an advantage. A Henge won't be enough to change your appearance as it takes concentration to hold and it takes up chakra along with if the enemy knows how to dispel it or even see through it you lose your advantage. A trick you could use to help is to get something powdery and that has a dark color to it and channel you chakra to it. You can rub that chakra enhanced powder into your hair to help change the color and since it has chakra in it it will last longer and is even water proof for a while" Shisui finished.

Naruto looked at Shisui with determination and conviction. "You got it Shisui-sensei!"

[Flash Back End]

Naruto chuckled dryly at the helpful information. It was as if Shisui saw this event happening. He then took out his only soldier pill and swallowed it which brought up his nearly empty chakra. He got up and pulled a couple bushes from the ground and used a small Katon jutsu to turn the bushes into black ash. Grabbing a handful of the ash he channeled chakra into it and started rubbing it into his hair which quickly turned from blonde (which had blood and dirt in it) into jet black. He walked over to the river and channeled chakra into the water to help wash the black ash from his hands.

It was a couple of minutes later did Naruto get the memories from his last Iwa Kage Bunshin and how Kakuzu was now heading towards him with annoyance rolling off him.

Naruto once again made more Bunshin that separated off and he continued onwards through River country. He wasn't going towards Konoha for the reason that Kakuzu could quickly figure out that he was heading there. Naruto couldn't help but think of Hiruzen as he ran of out of the forests and into the plains with rivers all over them. He was suppose to be back in Konoha an hour ago to report how his mission was successful. He only hoped that Hiruzen notice something was wrong soon or he won't last long. He may have strong and powerful jutsu but they cost a lot of chakra and he wasn't very experience on using them on the field. It's like comparing Zabuza Momochi, a master swordsman with tons of experience to a Genin being a master swordsman with no experience in a high level battle... the Genin wouldn't stand a chance. That's the position Naruto is in at the moment. He may have lots of strong jutsu, he just doesn't have the fighting experience to match up against Kakuzu. As it is Kakuzu is just playing with him he just doesn't know why.

[Hi no Kuni-Konohagakure-Hokage's office]

Hiruzen sat behind his desk looking at the door blowing smoke out of his pipe. He wasn't really paying attention to the door though as he was in deep thought.

'He should have been here an hour ago. Did the mission go wrong?' he thought in worry. 'No that couldn't have been it. I'm sure the mission was successful, Naruto probably stopped at a Ramen stand on his way back. No that also can't be it, the Chunin I sent with him wouldn't allow him to do that. (Sigh) I will just have to wait for him to return. If he doesn't return by tomorrow then I will send out Anbu' Hiruzen then got back to finishing the paperwork on his desk.

[With Naruto 12 hours later]

It was now around eight in the morning and Naruto was currently resting against a boulder that was on the side of a river. He had encountered Kakuzu personally 7 more times in the last 12 hours and in that time he had accidentally revealed his Sharingan. It seemed with the revelation Kakuzu began chasing him even more vigorously. His mask had already broke to pieces along with his black cloak. He had to use a strong Genjutsu over his already fading whisker marks to help conceal his identity.

He's already back at half chakra reserves since he took the soldier pill, usually his reserves would have already filled up again but since he has been getting little rest and constantly using his chakra they haven't been filling up as quickly.

His last encounter with Kakuzu was an hour ago and before that it was three hours. It would seem he has been getting better at hiding and losing him and he's glad for it.

"Man this sucks! Not only am I going through my chakra reserves fast, but I'm getting tired as well. Why is Kakuzu even chasing me? I'm not some shinobi with a high bounty" Naruto asked himself. "The old man should be sending out some reinforcement soon if he hasn't already due to me not returning yet. It's not going to matter anyways... I'm already too far away from where my mission took me. By the time they even pick up a trail I would already be a goner as Kakuzu is going to catch up to me soon" with that Naruto got up and began running again. If he even thought this whole situation through then he would have thought of the idea to summon a crow to help him escape or even just inform the Sandaime, but nooo! He was just too tired and not having enough time to think about the situation.

[4 Hours Later- Hokage's Office]

Hiruzen was now extremely worried for Naruto at the moment. It had been a whole day since he had given Naruto and the Chunin their mission and they should have been back the same day if not as soon as the Hokage Tower opened in the morning. 'Where are you Naruto?'

"Anbu!" He yelled out.

Two Anbu members appeared in front of him. "Hai Sandaime-sama"

"I want you to bring me special Jonin Anko Mitarashi and Jonin Kakashi Hatake here immediately! Make sure Kakashi understands that I mean immediately!"

"Hai" and with that the two Anbu disappeared and returned five minutes later with both Anko and Kakashi.

Kakashi once seeing Hiruzen's face turned serious." What is it that you need of us Sandaime-sama?"

Anko just stood next to Kakashi with a confused face.

"Yesterday morning I gave a C-rank mission to a Chunin and Naruto Uzumaki to clear a bandit camp and rescue the mayors daughter of a nearby city along with any other woman captured. They were supposed to return yesterday afternoon but they never returned. Now as it is mid-day and they still have yet to return and I suspect something has gone wrong. Your mission is to find the team and if the mission isn't complete, complete it if the team doesn't have significant injuries. The mission was in the Land of Rivers near the Border of the Land of Rain. I suggest you visit the mayor first to see if his daughter is returned yet and start from there. Now leave immediately!" Hiruzen ordered.

"Hai Hokage-sama!" both Anko and Kakashi responded before using Shunshin to get their stuff.

[With Naruto]

Naruto was now lightly panting with only a quarter of his chakra reserves left as he drank water from the nearby river and started cleaning off some of the grime on him. In one of his clashes with Kakuzu he had used his Tanto with wind chakra, but Kakuzu still somehow managed to cut right though it with a kunai covered in wind chakra. It would seem Kakuzu's wind element was currently stronger than his.

After taking a couple of minutes of drinking water Naruto sat back up and leaned up against a lone tree in the area. 'From the maps I looked at before my mission I should be heading towards that ravine with the river at the bottom. I should arrive in around 5 hours or so... that should be enough time to make my last stand and hope I can get help on the way or maybe get lucky and knock him off the cliff hehe. I will have to use a little of the Kyuubi's chakra later to refill my own and maybe that can help me escape Kakuzu. I need to come up with another name and background before then so I can completely cover up who I am' Naruto thought. 'My name had to be similar to an Uchiha with Uchiha being my clan name since Kakuzu already saw my Sharingan. Hmmm... how about Izuna Uchiha named after the younger brother of Madara Uchiha. Yeah that should work and I can come up with something like my mom coming from the Uchiha clan but ran away during the Third Great Shinobi War with being marked as KIA. I could explain how she wanted to name me after Madara's brother in hope I could be as strong as him. I don't really have to come up with my dad's name since Kakuzu would most likely be focused on me being an Uchiha' It took another five minutes before Naruto finished up with his fake history and identity before getting up and running towards his now dead end.

[4 Hours Later- Kakashi and Anko]

Kakashi and Anko have been traveling at their top speeds to arrive at the mayors house and all the hard running paid off as they appeared in front of the Mayors door. Kakashi stepped forwards and knocked three times before stepping away. It was a minute later did Toriana open the door to see the both of them.

"May I help you?" she asked.

Kakashi spoke up. "Yes you can. Are you the daughter of the mayor here?" he got a nod from Toriana. "Then would you know what happened to the leaf shinobi that rescued you yesterday. They were suppose to report in yesterday afternoon after they finished their mission but never showed up"

Toriana looked confused. "What do you mean? There was only one leaf shinobi that rescued us yesterday of the name Naruto Uzumaki. He had a clone take me and one other back here while he took the bigger group of 11 back to the village they belong in in the Land of Rivers" she answered.

Kakashi and Anko were confused at this, didn't Naruto have a Chunin with him on this mission. Quickly thanking Toriana both Anko away.

"So what do you think happened to the Gaki Kakashi?" Anko asked.

"I don't know. Whatever happened to the Chunin it happened before the girls were rescued or at least during while the girls couldn't see anything. Naruto on the other hand could have ran into some trouble while on his way back to Konoha and had to go a different route on the way back. Either way we need to go report to Hokage-sama about this so he can figure out the best move"

"Aww~ so we ran all the way here at our top speed for nothing?" Anko whined.

Kakashi just shook his head. 'No we did not. We got important information that could helps us find Naruto and maybe the Chunin that might be with him. If we didn't get this information from the mayors daughter, then we might be wondering around the area for hours before actually going back to Konoha to inform the Hokage that Naruto may not be going on the same route back due to some trouble" Kakashi explained before jumping into the tree's heading towards Konoha.

[Another 4 Hours Later]

It had been four hours since Naruto's last stop to come up with a fake name and history and at the moment he came to a stop in a middle of a field. He hadn't encountered Kakuzu in the last four hours which had made him suspicious as Kakuzu destroyed his last bunshin an hour ago so he should have caught up to him by now.

Naruto sat in a meditative form as he began to build up his chakra and once that was done he activated his Mangekyo Sharingan and slowly began to draw on the Kyuubi's chakra. Each time he was about to draw too much because of anger and hatred in the chakra he forced it back down with his Mangekyo. He did this for ten minutes until his chakra reserves restored to three-quarters which he was going to need. The Kyuubi's chakra also got rid of the fatigue had gotten from staying up constantly for almost two days along with giving him more strength. 'When I get back to Konoha I am definitely skipping the academy for a week and resting... and I might visit the hot springs too' Naruto though with a more relaxed face because of the Kyuubi's chakra.

[Back in Konoha-Hokage's tower]

Both Kakashi and Anko climbed the stairs leading up to the Hokage's office and entered the room and closed the door.

The Sandaime looked up from his paperwork and turned on his serious face once he saw who it was even though he already sensed their chakra.

"How did your mission go? Did you find Naruto?" he asked

Kakashi shook his head. "No Hokage-sama we didn't find him. We checked with the mayor and his daughter opened the door. We asked about Naruto's team and how long ago it was and she answered that Naruto was the only one that saved he and the others and defeated the shinobi that captured them on the same day. Given from that information I conclude something happened to the Chunin that was with Naruto before or during the attack and after Naruto saved the girls and returned them home, he must have gotten into some trouble returning to the village and had to take a different route. I believe it's safe to say that both Naruto and the Chunin with him can be marked as MIA until either are found and that we start searching for possible routes Naruto could have taken on his way home" Kakashi finished.

Before the Sandaime could reply the door burst open and Rias came in with a worried and distressed look. "Please find him Hokage-sama! He is all I have left besides the other Uchiha kids. I don't want to lose my best friend so soon!" Rias cried out.

"We will do the best we can Rias-chan. For now you just go home and rest and wait for Naruto to return" Hiruzen warmly assured. Rias just nodded wiping away the few tears that were escaping her eyes.

[With Naruto an Hour Later]

Naruto was running across the ground as fast as he could to make it to his destination. Kakuzu was a few minutes behind him and he needed all the time he could to prepare. skidding to a halt in front of the ravine Naruto quickly tried to catch his breath as he turned around to await for Kakuzu.

It was three minutes later did Kakuzu appear in front of him with a Shunshin and looked at Naruto with an annoyed look but impressed one at that. "You are the original are you not? I don't sense any more of your clones and I highly doubt you could fool me long enough to get away yourself. You are quite impressive with your jutsu arsenal and how you can continuously run away from me knowing I was a stronger foe. What is your name Uchiha?" he asked roughly.

Naruto thought about it before answering. "Izuna Uchiha"

Kakuzu nodded. "Fitting name for someone with so much potential. It's like your Madara Uchiha's little brother reborn. Now let's get down to business... I doubt your from Konoha as all of the Uchiha shinobi were killed by Itachi and the fact you would have fled there once I started attacking you, but you didn't. Who is your parents boy and how is there an Uchiha outside of Konoha without no one knowing?" Kakuzu said in a commanding and powerful tone.

Naruto then told Kakuzu about his fake history and other stuff and Kakuzu just looked at him intensly to see if he was lying... Luckly Naruto was good at lying.

"Alright then. I'm going to test you out. If you pass you live... if you fail you die and I sell your Sharingan eyes" Kakuzu then disappeared and reappered in front of Naruto with his fist cocked back.

Naruto quickly jumped to the side as Kakuzu punched where he previously was. Naruto tried using his speed to attack Kakuzu from behind but Kakuzu easily blocked his kick and sent a fast counter kick knocking him back. Now that there was distance between them, Kakuzu went through more handseals and called out a jutsu.

"Katon: Swirling Vortex!" after saying that a huge swirling vortex came out of Kakuzu's mouth and sped towards Naruto who was going through his own handseals.

"Suiton: Water Dragon Bullet!" Using the water from the river below, Naruto sent a water dragon at the Vortex. Right when the Dragon his the Fire, Naruto started going through more handseals and called out another jutsu. "Fuuton: Flowing Wind Fist!" Naruto then quickly ran through the mist formed from the last two attacks and appeared in front of Kakuzu and unleashed his jutsu.

Kakuzu seeing the wind coated fist could only bring up his arms in an X pattern to block the jutsu and was sent flying backwards.

Naruto just stood their panting letting his Sharingan deactivate. Even though he just refilled his chakra reserves to ¾ of the way his reserves were already really low even though the fight just started. 'It seems I'm wasting too much chakra in my jutsu. I know I had to use a bunch of chakra to get the water dragon up here quickly and to match the fire vortex coming towards me. I also put a lot of chakra into that wind jutsu in order to actually do something against him. I thought I got rid of the fatigue by using the Kyuubi's chakra but I guess I only gotten rid of it temporarily'. It was then that Kakuzu got up from the ground and walked towards him.

"How in the World are you not injured!" Naruto yelled out seeing that Kakuzu only had ruffled clothes.

"You are strong boy… but not strong enough" It was then that Naruto noticed black threads coming off of Kakuzu and into the ground. Before he could question anything the same black threads came out of the ground in front of him and all Naruto could do was move slightly to the right as the threads turned into a sharp point and pierced right through his chest barely missing any of his vital organs. Naruto's eyes widened and he spits out blood before wobbly jumping backwards landing a foot away from the edge of the cliff. Naruto couldn't land properly due to his wobbly legs and collapsed on the ground while Kakuzu walked calmly towards him. What neither of them noticed was the cracks appearing on the ground around Naruto.

"You pass my test boy. I will let you live today but only for you to gain more power and get a high bounty on your head in the Bingo book" Kakuzu then stated to turn around and walk back to town but he heard the ground crack. Looking back around, he sees Naruto's eyes wide as the ground around Naruto cracked and gave way for Naruto to fall into the river below.

Kakuzu doesn't do anything but watch the boy fall and crash into the water. He focused his minor sensor abilities and was able to tell that Naruto was still alive.

"Live longer until I come and collect your bounty… Izuna Uchiha" Kakuzu finally said before walking away.

[River]

Naruto floated down the river that led into Hi no Kuni with his vision going dark. There was only one thought going through his mind before he passed out.

'What have I gotten myself into?'

I hope everyone enjoyed the chapter. I know that the ending wasn't very good and at first I wanted to continue onward until Naruto got back to Konoha, but I decided to just finish it off here as a cliffhanger (kind of).

I'm sorry if I'm confusing people of the who mission and Kakuzu. Right now Naruto doesn't have enough experience to fight someone like him and neither is he strong enough to. The only reason he isn't dead is because Kakuzu doesn't want him dead because he believes Naruto will have a huge bounty in the future.

As for Naruto making up a fake name and history... it will make more sense in the future and if you plan to keep reading this story in the future then it would be good to remember it. We also had a flashback with Shisui! Awesome! Shisui is one of my favorite Uchiha's and the flashbacks will continue to appear to show Naruto's and Shisui's bond. I also have to look for my notes on this story to remember what I was going to do with this story hehehe.

See you all next chapter!