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Chapter 9 – Removing Gato…

Naruto stepped back into the shadows. Zabuza and Haku both looked worriedly at the retreating boy. There was a knock and then the door opened to reveal Gato and two men with swords in tow.

He then moved over to the bedside of Zabuza and exclaimed, "So much for the Demon on the Mist." Suddenly both of his henchmen fell over with their eyes rolling to the back of their head. He angrily looked at Zabuza and asked, "Are you betraying me?"

He then felt a prick on his neck and turned to see a blonde boy with a senbon in his hand. "No, I'm taking you out of the equation," Naruto explained, as Gato fell to the ground. He then walked over to the downed mercenaries and took their weapons. He then tied them up and asked, "Do you want me to take out the trash?"

Zabuza sighed and replied, "We still needed him to get to his fortune."

Naruto chuckled and said, "He isn't dead, just asleep. His thugs are also asleep, so I'm going to take Haku-chan and go take out his goons."

Zabuza smirked and replied, "Go ahead, but be careful."

Naruto nodded. He and Haku then pulled the trio of bad guys out of the hut. Zabuza sighed and said quietly, "What have I got myself into?"

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Gato found himself awake in front of Tazuna and several people he didn't recognize. "Gato, I'll give you two chances to tell me what I want to know or I will get the information and then I will just take your life. Do you understand me?" a blonde with a Konoha headband asked him.

"Ha, you don't scare me kid," Gato retorted.

Naruto turned to Tazuna and said, "You better go back to the bridge while Azula, Haku, Anko and I handle this. I'm sure you wouldn't want to see what we're going to do to him."

Tazuna glared at Gato and said, "Do what you need to do. After what he did to Kaiza, he deserves your worst." He turned and walked away with a copy of the blonde that was talking to him.

Naruto then smiled widely and said, "I offer you two chances to answer my questions, or I get serious." Not waiting for Gato answer he continued, "I want to know the size of your mercenary force… please."

Gato began to laugh and then said, "A weakling like you asking so nicely… how cute." He then felt an overwhelming fear come over him while the boy's blue eyes turned to purple.

Naruto smiled, but showed no glee behind the smile. He then said, "That was one, you will answer or the punishments will become increasingly severe. I have studied under one of the best in torture and interrogation at Konoha."

Anko blushed and said, "Thanks gaki, I'm touched."

Naruto put his face so near Gato's that their noses touched. "Now, number of mercenaries," his voice demanded.

Gato began to laugh, but then screamed when he felt his leg pierced. "Ah! That hurt!" he exclaimed.

"Aw… a single senbon to the leg, he's going to be easy to break," Naruto explained.

"You said you would give me two chances to answer you," Gato exclaimed.

"You already didn't answer the second time I asked," Naruto replied.

Gato's eyes widened and he worriedly said, as Naruto showed him another senbon, "I'll tell you whatever you want."

"Mercenaries, numbers, now," he asked angrily.

Gato began to sweat and replied, "Two hundred and ten."

Naruto smiled and then asked, "How much money do you have on hand?"

Gato gritted his teeth, but said, "About 2 million at the mansion."

Naruto then asked, "Accounts and access codes?"

Gato continued to sweat and said, "There are about fifteen spread around and the codes are in a little black book in my safe."

Naruto sighed, and said to his compatriots, "This was a little too easy."

"Just don't kill me," Gato said in a pleading tone.

"Safe combination," Naruto asked.

"Five, seventeen, fourty-two," Gato replied.

Naruto looked down and saw the puddle that formed beneath the villain's feet. He then smelled foul stench of the man having crapped himself. "You will face Konoha justice for failure to pay for missions and the death of a team hired by you," he explained.

"Guess we will let Sasuke-chan clean him up for transport," Azula said while Haku giggled.

Naruto knocked Gato out and then asked, "So who is on the attack team, sensei?"

Anko took a thinking pose and answered, "I guess we could have Uke-chan take care of the prisoner while Haku-chan and we take care of his men and his mansion."

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Naruto was pulling a green camouflage shirt over his chain shirt. Anko, Azula and Haku were putting on form fitting female armor of similar color to Naruto in the same room. It perplexed Haku that Naruto didn't seem to take notice of three naked women in the room. She continued to put on Azula's extra suit.

Naruto then asked, "Everyone got their supplies ready?"

Haku finished putting senbon into a pouch and then nodded to the boy, who pulled a green camo ski mask over his face.

The four left the room to find an angry Uchiha Sasuke. "Where are you losers going?" he asked angrily.

Anko replied, "Above your pay grade genin. Kakashi, are you sure that you and he will be okay while we're gone?"

Kakashi nodded and replied, "The prisoner is secure and Sasuke is ready for anything that those mercenaries throw at us. I've also set some traps around the building."

A boy came up and smiled at Naruto. He then said, "Thank you for help us out so much! You've made me think that heroes do exist."

Naruto nodded and ruffled the boy's hair. "No problem Inari. Let's head out," he then exclaimed as the four left the room.

"Why don't I get to go with them?" Sasuke asked.

"They work well as a team and I'm sure that Haku-chan will work well with them," Kakashi explained.

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Naruto stood over the dead body of a mercenary. This was the fifteenth merc that they had killed as they started to take out the patrols as they encountered them. They hid the body in the bushes. Haku moved quietly along and pointed out the lookouts in the small towers. Azula threw several senbon and the men in the towers fell down inside of the towers. A dozen Narutos appeared and then they disappeared into the bushes. Guards disappeared around the edge of the complex and no one seemed to notice the missing men so far. Anko noticed a man that disappeared walking out of the forest and walked into the middle of a meeting of several of the thugs. Suddenly one fell over then another and then the whole group fell over dead.

The trio of women then ran quickly over to the dead group while Naruto appeared out of the smoke of the man doing the killing. He started to grab bodies and move them to locations where he could hide the bodies. He made several hand signals while the women nodded and disappeared. He sighed heavily and moved to a window.

It suddenly opened and he pulled the man out the window, while pushing a kunai into the back of his skull. Another man stuck his head out the window only to get a kunai through the bottom of his skull and also pulled out the window. Naruto waited several minutes to see if an alarm had been raised, but heard nothing new from the window. He shifted his position and looked into the room beyond. What he saw mad his stomach churn and nearly cause his to throw up.

Inside the room was an unconscious naked woman. She was strapped to a table so that her buttock was pointed at the door. He could see the woman was tied to across the table and her legs were secured to the table legs. He quickly moved into the room and cut the bindings and laid the woman in the bed next to the table. He then noticed her face sported bruises and her chest had several healing cuts. He quickly covered the woman and pushed a sedative senbon into her neck. This appeared to relax the woman.

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Azula moved quickly into the second story window and found a sleeping mercenary. She quickly slit his throat and moved to the door. The door opened and a naked man came in and said, "Hey Ryu, time for fun time!" He looked worriedly at the not moving Ryu and move closer only to have his world go black.

Azula had pushed a kunai into the base of the man's skull and then moved the body to the bed. She smirked as she moved both of the men into a loving pose and then closed the door behind herself and entered the hallway.

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Haku found a room full of women wearing very little. She put a finger in a silencing gesture and the women nodded knowing what she wanted. They moved to the door and waited. The door opened and a man entered with a sword and said, "So who is going to suck me off today?"

He felt a pinprick at the back of his neck and his vision began to turn black. Haku caught the man and set him down behind the door. She noticed a clone of Naruto standing at the window and then gestured for women to follow the clone out the window. The women complied as Haku slipped out the room. She came upon a group of several guards chatting at a crossing of corridors. She quickly threw several senbon. All six men fell quickly. She grabbed them and quickly pulled them to the room she had vacated, before they could be noticed as being missing.

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Naruto and Azula came upon the mess hall and saw that a large group was gathering for food. They quietly slipped into the kitchen and dispatched with the cooks. Naruto poured a concoction into the stew that appeared to be today's food. He stirred it thoroughly. Naruto then left a clone for each dead cook that was transformed into the corresponding cook. They then left as a large majority of the mercenaries would be in the mess hall and enjoy their last meal.

They then came upon a dojo with a pair of men with large hammers and about a dozen men watching them spar with the hammers. Naruto then said, "You want the big guys or the small fry?"

Azula smirked under her mask and said, "I'll fry the big boys and you can take care of the small fry."

Naruto entered first and then charged straight at the hammer wielding duo. He then turned and made a B-line for the first mercenary nearest the two. They then noticed a bright light coming from the entrance, only to see Azula sending a lightning bolt straight at the pair. Not realizing that their metal hammers had the handles crossed and were touching watched in amazement as the bolt hit their hammers. They saw the pretty light show for a second or two before their hearts stopped. Naruto ran a circuit around the dojo cutting down the 'small fry' as he passed. They still wore a look of amazement at the lightning bolt as they passed on to the next life. Naruto whistled as he looked at the fused hammers. The pair quickly left the room and began looking for more targets.

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Haku rounded a corner and found herself in Gato's office. She quickly searched the room for the items that they had determined were necessary. She quickly opened the vault and dodged a nasty surprise in the guise of a loaded crossbow firing out of the safe just above the head level of Gato. She grimaced at this, but finished empting the safe and quickly sealing up other valuable items. She finished just as Naruto and Azula entered the room. Naruto then said, "Building secure, all targets neutralized, civilians evacuated and the monetary items secured."

"Check," both Haku and Azula responded crisply.

"Time to head back then," Naruto said. The trio met Anko at the staging area and the foursome headed back to the river near Tazuna's house. The four stripped and took a bath, washing off the blood and gore from the operation.

Anko smirked and said, "Nice tattoos. When do I get one?"

Naruto turned full face to Anko who raised an eyebrow and replied, "Thought you were with some other guy?"

Anko looked the boy up and down. She then said, "I am, not that I'm against screwing my step-brother."

Naruto blushed and explained, "It is a marriage seal. I haven't actually slept with Haku-chan or Hinata-chan, yet. Also we're waiting to hear back from Yakumo-chan."

"What? I'm not good enough for your rod?" Anko said with a smirk.

Naruto sighed and replied, "You know that isn't it. Azula already said she wasn't sharing me with you and Hinata-chan agreed. So look all you want. Unless you're going to rape me you won't get any." Naruto's tone was teasing.

Anko smirked and said, "That isn't a half bad idea, but I can wait a couple years for that."

Naruto sighed as Azula handed him a towel to dry off. She and Haku began to dress as Naruto and Anko continued to tease each other. Finally Naruto and Anko got dressed. She then wrapped an arm over his shoulder as both smiled and walked to Tazuna's house.

A/N: Hope you enjoyed this chapter. We will be getting back to the gang in the next chapter. As for the harem, I think that I will stop it at as where it is for now. Azula is the main focus for the pairing and Anko is the comic relief in the harem category. To make it clear, Naruto has only been truly intimate with Azula, but has put seals on both Hinata and Haku. This is in lue of an engagement ring. The seals are something like personal locators, but can't be tracked by anybody but those that are linked, so when Yakumo gets hers she will know where the others are. As for range I haven't decided on that yet. It isn't a punishment seal or a seal to guarantee fidelity.