*the walk to wave was quiet with the exception to lee and guy regular antics Naruto was walking next to Neji while Shizune was having small talk with Tenten giving her tips on how to add poison to her weapons and finally Kakashi was at the back reading his book while every now and then glancing at Naruto, the walk took half a day but they've made it to the head office of the leader of wave walking inside Naruto raised his eyebrows in surprise seeing at the man sitting on the chair*

Naruto:tazuna? What are you doing here?

Tazuna:oh, it's you again brat been quite the few years

Naruto:looks like they've been good to you if the people here let an old drunk be they're leader

Tazuna:haha guess you're right anyway back to business let me just say I'm glad you ninjas could  make it, you all already know that the place is being attacked by bandits, sadly we've already had a death on the hands of those bastards I'll give the information to you're group's leader the rest of you all will be staying in my house Naruto you've already been there so please guide them there

Kakashi:I'll stay with guy so to show him the way

*Naruto nodded and they left leaving guy and Kakashi there to hear the information, the rest of the group walked to tazuna's house*

Tsunami:my Naruto it's been so long

Naruto:hello tsunami where's Inari?

*Naruto bowed just in time as Inari jumped for a sneak attack, Inari fell and slides to the kitchen, tsunami flinched when she heard broken plates, a huge tick mark appeared in tsunami's face as a smile grew on her face*

Tsunami:in the kitchen and soon to be punished

*Inari walked out limbing a bit smiling and walking passed his mother to the protection of Naruto*

Inari:hey Naruto! It's been so long!

Naruto:hey Inari you look.....like a dead man anyway this are my teammates for the mission introduce yourself

Tenten:hi I'm Tenten the weapons master

Neji:Neji hyuga nice to meet you

Lee:yosh! I'm lee and it's very nice to meet you I'll protect you all with my life!

Shizune: hello I'm Shizune Naruto's girlfriend nice to meet you both

Tsunami:nice to meet you all too especially you Shizune now make yourself at home while i have a little chat with my son

*Inari felt the fear of God fill his body as he made the mistake of trying to run for it but Naruto "accidentally" tripped him*

Naruto:ups

Inari:traitor!!

*Naruto chuckled as they went inside and talked amongst themselves it wasn't until the 20 minute mark that guy and Kakashi made it back to the group sitting down next to them*

Guy:alright I've gotten the rundown of the place I've decided that Shizune will stay near the village to help the injured, Naruto you and Lee will be protecting the north side, Tenten and Neji will protect the south Kakashi you'll be protecting east and I'll protect the west Naruto I'll need you to make shadow clones to search the area for any incoming enemies

Naruto:got it since we'll be starting tomorrow I'll be off training

*Naruto turned in to a puff a smoke showing he was a shadow clone the whole time*

Lee;yosh! Naruto i won't let you do more training them me!!

*Lee left running with guy crying tears of pride for his secret son i mean for his student*

Lee:yosh lee go the spirit of youth coursing through you're veins it's so beautiful to see!!!

*In the distance they all could clearly hear lee yelling "guy sensei"*

Guy:that reminds me all of you don't leave without you're partner the bandits try to ambush people when they are alone, they're not any regular bandits form the accounts tazuna Gave me they have some retired shinobis

Shizune:should we be worried about Naruto then ?

Guy:fear not knowing lee he'll find Naruto before any trouble could ever happen!

Meanwhile with Naruto

*We see him leaning against the tree enjoying the view of the clearing that meant more to Naruto more then just it's beautiful for it was the place he and Haku met the place that for that short moment in time they weren't enemy shinobi's they were human regular human having a normal conversation*

Naruto:i wonder....how would life be different if we've met earlier would you still see yourself as just a weapon Haku? Guess I'll never know

*Naruto frown as another memory came in to his mind*

Flashback

Location fire nation capital

Naruto:I'm sorry you want me to what?

*Naruto's tone showed anger as he looked at his mother in an older state her once bright red hair now dulled with many grey strand between them her once smooth skin now with a considerable amount of wrinkles*

Kushina:i want you to forgive you're father

Naruto:mother why ask me such a thing it's because of that man that I've suffered throught my childhood, because of him i have this demon inside me you yourself told me how you wanted someone else to hold this burden, because of him you're own sister didn't even know i lived can you even imagine the life full of love i would've gotten if they raised me instead of having to live in a orphanage? Instead of having to learn how to take care for myself? How to cook? How to clean? How to do everything that no 6 years old should ever know how to do why would I ever forgive him for yhe wrongs he has done to me

*Kushina didn't say anything at first just took a sip of her tea to buy herself some time to get her thoughts in order*

Kushina:yes you're father has done a lot of awful stuff, things he could or couldn't have known and i won't be defending him on any of it but I'm not telling you this so to somehow make that moron feel better, I'm saying this for you're well being my son my sunshine my heart

*Kushina slowly got up and walked up to Naruto holding his head lovingly in her hands*

Kushina:i want you to forgive him so you can move forward, so that you can let go of all that anger and be able to enjoy your future to the fullest nothing would make me happier then to see you happy truly happy.....

Present

Naruto:.....

*Naruto touched the seal on his shoulder and out came out Minato's Flying Thunder God Kunai*

*even after giving everything his father had to the public his special kunai and how to make them, Naruto kept for himself the reason? That's something he couldn't tell you, Naruto twirled the kunai around with a finger as he closed his eyes*

Naruto:easier said then done mother

*Naruto threw the kunai landing on the tree in front of him, Naruto sighed and went in to meditating position feeling the nature around him and more importantly the 3 chakra signatures that were slowly making they're way to him, once they made it close enough Naruto got up taking his sword out slamming it to the ground*

Naruto:took you all long enough i was getting sick and tired of releasing chakra so you would come to me

*The 3 bandits didn't talk they just jumped out of the bushes while In the air, naruto grabbed his sword and waited when the closest bandit was close enough in a matter of 5 seconds Naruto was able to take the sword of the ground and stab the bandit in the heart*

Naruto:hope the other two are more of a challenge

*Naruto jumped out the way as the remaining two started swinging they're kunai's at Naruto one with an electric infused kunai the other with a wind infused one, Naruto got enough distance to make his hand signs*

Naruto:shadow clone justsu!

*as the now 3 Naruto stared to fight quickly overwhelming the two retired shinobis turned bandits one slipped giving the shadow clone the opportunity to use his chakra chain to pierce his body multiple times wrapping all his organs and squeezing them until they exploded, the remaining bandit scared for his life dropped a smoke bomb and ran away with Naruto looking at him leave not even considering running after him there's no sport in hunting a running prey, Naruto turned around just in time to receive a kick to the face courtesy of lee who mistook him for a bandit*

Lee: take my dynamic entry!!

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