"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Jutsu/Kurama Talking"

Chapter 1

Hatake Kakashi the jounin sensei of team 7 was leading his team consisting of Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura and Uzumaki Tayuya. Uchiha Sasuke was the last Uchiha in the village and had been rewarded with the title of "Rookie of the year" when he graduated. Sasuke was in Kakashi's team for many reasons but it was mainly due to him being an Uchiha. The belief was that in the future, Kakashi would be the best one to teach him how to activate his sharingan since he was the only one left in Konoha with any experience of how. This was because he had one himself.

Kakashi's next student, Haruno Sakura, was also someone that had been rewarded with a flattering title which was "Kunoichi of the year" (1), the top female of all the graduates. She was a ninja that, not only had considerable chakra control, she had also achieved top scores in all the written tests. If she were to apply herself in all endeavors, she would certainly be looking at a great future. Unfortunately she was distracted. She had a tendency to focus an unhealthy amount of time on seeking a romantic relationship with Sasuke, more so than working on improving herself as a ninja.

His last student was someone that Kakashi would've expected to be someone else. But with the way things had turned out he was stuck with Konoha's newest Jinchüriki (2). Uzumaki Tayuya was a red haired girl like most Uzumakis. By all accounts, she was hot tempered and possessed a mouth that peppered almost every sentence with profanity. Tayuya was dead last of all the graduates and the only reason she graduated was because she had managed to defeat Mizuki; a traitor who had tricked her into stealing the forbidden scrolls.

Tayuya had been brought to Konoha almost two and a half years ago and had been made the Jinchüriki of the Sanbi: the three tailed turtle. That all happened half a year after Konoha's other Jinchüriki had disappeared from Konoha. Uzumaki Naruto: the Kyübi Jinchüriki, had been gone from Konoha for three years and no one was aware of his whereabouts. Most of them thought he was dead.

Uzumaki Tayuya and Uzumaki Naruto were not from the same family but they were from the same clan and that is why they share the name. Tayuya was treated in the same way Naruto had been as soon as it was known that she was also a Jinchüriki. Team 7 was currently leaving Konoha to go on their first C ranked mission which was to guard Tazuna the bridge builder from Wave Country.

It was three years ago that Uzumaki Naruto had been kidnapped by two chuunin level ninja that had been paid to get him out of the village by someone in the civilian council. The councilman did not care if they killed him or not. He just wanted him gone. One of the two ninjas hated Naruto's guts and had no problem with killing him. The other one, however, was hating himself for what he was doing but he was in desperate need of money. The ninja who hated Naruto's guts was none other than Mizuki, the ninja that Tayuya had dealt with almost three years later. The other chuunin was also an Academy teacher by the name of Genji.

Mizuki and Genji had dropped Naruto at a large tree at the border of Fire country and Mizuki had said that they should just end his life right there. Genji, feeling overwhelming shame for his actions, told Mizuki that there was no way in hell he was going to let him do that. He instead suggested a different course of action. Genji left Naruto there with a backpack filled with a few waterskins and some energy bars. The two chuunins left soon after that and that was when Naruto was found by a very old man that would train Naruto for a year before he passed away of old age. The old man's name? Itama Senju.

Itama's last words to Naruto was to spread the name of "Senju" in the world once again. And that was what Naruto intended to do and had already done as he had made quite a name for himself the two years after Itama had died. Naruto had made a name for himself as a bounty hunter, who hunted missing ninjas. Naruto himself was labeled a B-rank ninja going by the name "Senju". The reason for the name came from captured ninjas who reported that when they had asked for their captor's name, he had answered them "Senju" in a low whisper and a grinning smile. The bounties who were killed had very little to report. It would seem that Naruto's tendencies towards bifurcation or decapitation on resisting bounties, leaves very little wiggle room for relaying information to others.

Naruto's ninjutsu skills were not overly impressive. Currently he was only adept in the three academy jutsus, as well as Shunshin, kage bunshin and lastly Shuriken/Kunai kage bunshin. His knowledge in genjutsu was also lacking, dispelling it was the limit of his abilities in this area. He had some insight into Fuinjutsu and was a decent practitioner of taijutsu. But what Naruto excelled in was his swordsmanship, kenjutsu. Naruto was also a ninja that relied heavily on speed and combined his speed with his kenjutsu skills.

Naruto was now thirteen years old. He had been ten years old when he was kidnapped from his village and left to die. Even though he lived ten years in Konoha the only thing he remembered from that place was the old man (Hokage) and the ramen stand: Ichiraku Ramen. He did not remember any of his old classmates or any other person from Konoha.

Naruto was not stupid by any means but he was forgetful. Further, one peculiar trait of his was that he had a particularly hard time seeing the difference between a boy and a girl. He had also picked up some other bad habits especially for a thirteen year old. Worst among them was his immense love of alcohol, especially Sake.

Naruto currently wore dark blue pants with a dark blue T-Shirt. His hair was golden blonde cut short into a messy hairstyles with visible spikes sticking out everywhere. Three whiskers marked each of his cheeks. Not much had changed in his appearance other than his recent growth in height. Instead of being one of the shortest in height he was now relatively tall for his age, though still shorter than the tallest one of the "Rookie nine" Aburame Shino. Still, he was about as tall as the second tallest: Nara Shikamaru.

Naruto was currently in wave country looking for his next bounty one Momochi Zabuza. His target was an A-ranked missing nin. Zabuza would probably not be an easy bounty to acquire but Naruto was in serious need of money as he had wasted all his cash on Sake and ramen. Admittedly it was worth it.

Just as Naruto thought of all the Sake and Ramen he could buy once he had cashed in his new target, he had found the target. The target was not alone however as it seemed he was currently battling a squad from Konoha.

Naruto saw three younger individuals that he thought were boys roughly his age. They were guarding an older looking man dressed in Konoha styled ninja gear. 'What a bunch of freaks, those boys have no style' Naruto thought to himself. He did not appreciate the tight fitting clothes the two long haired skinny boys wore nor the duck ass hairstyle of the not-so-ridiculously clothed boy.

He quickly shook off his distaste of the three retards and instead glared at who must be their jounin sensei as he noticed the sharingan in his right eye. 'An Uchiha' Naruto thought angrily as he sat hidden in a tree watching over the battle. What Naruto did not know was that his anger was causing some of the Kyübi's chakra to leak from the seal, something that any jounin ninja would be able to sense.

Down on the battlefield

Kakashi had just tried to calm his students by shouting "Relax! I will not let any of my comrades die", when suddenly he noticed a sizeable chakra source emanating from the surrounding forest. This malicious chakra felt familiar to him however, as he had and sensed it thirteen years ago during the Kyübis attack.

Zabuza had also sensed the peculiar chakra and asked "More of your runts, Kakashi?" Before Kakashi could answer, both Zabuza and Kakashi had jumped back to dodge a sudden incoming attack. The attacker had used Shunshin to appear right behind Kakashi and his sword would have pierced Kakashi's heart if he had not moved.

"Who are you?" Zabuza asked since it was obvious he was not on Kakashi's side after all. Naruto raised an eyebrow at Zabuza and said "You're just a bounty, shut your mouth!"

Zabuza, exasperated, glared at him "What did you say?"

Naruto ignored Zabuza for the moment and focused on Kakashi who was standing there with his jaw dropped as he saw Naruto. "Prepare to die, Uchiha!" Naruto said as he once again used Shunshin to quickly appear next to Kakashi and then drew his sword and attempted to slice Kakashi in half by performing the kenjutsu technique: "Shishi Sonson" (Draw and Resheath Technique: Lion's Song). Something was certainly cut in half, but it was not Kakashi. The copy ninja had used the replacement technique to replace himself with wooden logs.

"Kuso!" (3) Naruto swore and turned around to look at Kakashi who was now standing in front of his students protectively.

"You are one interesting brat" Zabuza asserted with a deep sounding cackle.

All of the Konoha ninjas could now see Naruto without a problem and all of them recognized him somewhat, with the exception of Tayuya. Sasuke knew he had seen this guy somewhere but he could not remember where. Sakura remembered him also, how could she not? This was the guy that was dead last in the academy and had a huge crush on her. He had, to Sakura's great annoyance, done everything to let everyone know about it.

"I told you to shut your mouth, bounty" Naruto snapped at Zabuza.

"So you are after my bounty? Get lost kid you are out of your league here" Zabuza retorted.

"Out of my league?" Naruto asked with obvious disdain. With a laugh he answered "We will see about that, later." He then focused on Kakashi again "For now I will deal with the Uchiha then I will deal with you, bounty!"

Kakashi got out of his shock and said "What is your name, stranger?"

Naruto grinned. "Senju" he answered in a low voice that caused both Zabuza's and Kakashi's eyes to widen as they knew about the rumors of the bounty hunter with that name.

"No," Kakashi said, "your real name."

Naruto ignored him and bit his thumb chanting "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" (Summoning Technique). The technique summoned a large purple toad, Naruto jumped up on its back.

"Naruto-boy?" The toad asked while looking around trying to find him. The toad had not noticed him jumping up on his back.

"Damn it! Don't call me that!" Naruto yelled and stomped on the toad's back.

"Sorry for my clumsiness" the toad said embarrassed and held up a wooden barrel that was almost as big as Naruto himself "I have brought a barrel of Sake that we can share".

"Stop it Gamaken!" Naruto yelled with a red face "You are embarrassing me in front of my bounty and the Uchiha!"

"Forgive me" Gamaken said as he noticed that there were others around.

Zabuza was getting tired of being ignored and said "Bounty hunter Senju and Sharingan no Kakashi I will deal with you both at a later time" and disappeared with a shunshin.

Thanks for reading.

Chapter has been edited in August 2017 by Salesman.

1. Kunoichi means female ninja

2. The jinchūriki (人柱力, Literally meaning: Power of Human Sacrifice) are humans that have tailed beasts sealed within them.

3. In Japanese, kuso (糞,くそ) means "crap" or "shit" and "bullshit".