Chapter 44

[ Mature content ahead ]

Naruto and the other Pit dwellers rose from their respective futon very early in the morning. They had their breakfast and they directly went for their usual morning training. That included their usual one thousand three hundred and sixty nine sprint around the village. Then Naruto, Kuromaru and Konohamaru began their respective training of punching, kicking and headbutting a boulder till it breaks. Akira and Akio had their own respective training methods Naruto planned for them.

After that they began sparring with each other, in which Naruto was usually the winner.

Everytime they fought with Naruto, they always have to find new battle tactics to gain an advantage over him, but it proved to be helpful on the first time they execute it. After that, Naruto would have found a way to counter their battle tactics.

It was like, he was tactical genius that shone brightly in combat, facing problems and solving them on the spot.

To simplify the above lines, '' None of your tricks, will work on me twice. '' As stated by Naruto himself.

Although they were defeated almost everytime they fought against him, they never gave up on improving themselves and finding new ways to defeat him.

Naruto had specifically told them time and time again, that if they made a battle tactic that could make him bleed the first time they execute it, that was already a victory for them. Because if they used it to fight someone else, that person was already good as dead.

At sunrise, their bloody spar would come to an end.

And after washing away any blood on themselves, they went about doing their own activities.

Kuromaru went to the Hyuga compound and play with the young children. Konohamaru went deeper into the forest of death to train his pet Centipede in an attempt to create his '' War animal '' as he calls it.

Akira and Akio infiltrated Inuzuka compound and spied on them for any battle technique.

As for Naruto, he took a relaxing stroll to the Hinata's house, only to find that Hinata was waiting for him with a bento box in her hands.

'' Good morning Hinata-chan! are you ready for today's mission ? ''

Hinata shyly nooded in confirmation, Naruto took a look at the bento she brought and was surprised that it much larger than the usual days.

'' Do we have a party or something today ? ''

'' Yes Naruto-kun. Today is the last day you will be with our team. So before you leave us, me, Shino, Kiba and Kurenai-sensei planned a thanks giving party. ''

Naruto was so happy today, although he is going to leave her team today and another, he found a very good news.

From her batch, only three teams had passed the test. Which was a good thing for him, as he had to wait only two weeks before he is back with Hinata's team.

On arriving at the mission hall, they were greeted with the rest of team 8 along with Kurenai, where they will be assigned a mission.

Today's mission was a, D~ranked mission.

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D~Rank Mission

Aizawa-san from Aizaw's food stall is in dire need for two cooks and two waiters. The job will start from 9 Am and ends 4 Pm.

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The sound of frying vegatables and the aroma of tasty food attracted many customers to medium size building of Aizawa's food stall.

Hinata and Naruto were tasked with being the cooks, while Kiba and Shino and Kurenai were the waiters and waitress.

'' Cooks ! we need another ten servings of Chicken fried rice with a heart shape sauce on it ! '' Aizawa the owner of the stall yelled while looking at the window that connected to the kitchen.

'' Here. '' From the window came a muscular and scared arm of Naruto, carrying a tray with ten plates of Chicken fried rice with a cute looking heart on it.

'' Today is my lucky day. '' Aizawa beamed with joy. his medium size food stall was almost on the verge of closing down.

So now, he had two choices left. One: close the shop or, Two: come up with a brilliant way to improving his food stall and fill his pockets with money.

And he was then hit with a big problem. His cook was bedridden with fever.

Hiring cooks was a pain in the ass as well as for his wallet. So he had to use the most money saving method... Hiring ninjas.

It was cheap, and efficient. Currently he praising himself, '' I'm a genius! '' He exclaims. '' The two cooks were gold mines. The things they cooked no matter how simple the dish was, tasted even better than those five - star restruant.

That was the cause for all the customers waiting in line outside his food stall. In just an hour he had earn more money than what he earned in a month. If this continued, he will be filthy rich by the end of the week.

'' Oi ! ass-sniffer! go the market and get ten Kilograms of chicken. '' Naruto loud voice alerted Kiba.

'' Yes Aniki! '' Kiba replied. Although Naruto was annoying, cruel, heartless and a major asshole, he had taught him many things about tracking, that it made all the tracking skills that were taught to him by his clan seemed inferior.

Not to mention, he had saved his sorry ass more times than he could count during a C~ranked mission a few days ago. He repected him for his skills and calling him Aniki was a way for him to show respect.

'' If I don't see your sorry ass with the chicken in ten minutes you'll be at the receiving end of my iron claw ! ''

Kiba and Akamaru left the food stall leaving a trail of dust behind them. They know what he could do with his iron claw and they don't want to find out what he could do to them.

Eight minutes later, Kiba and Akamaru came back with a big bag full of chicken meat.

As the job came to an end, Aizawa became so happy with their work, that he paid double the amount he planned on giving them.

Naruto and Team eight, did not have their lunch yet, so currently they occupied an empty training ground.

Naruto took out the bento Hinata prepared this morning and with hesitation he shared the meal with the others.

'' Hinata-chan, How can you cook such delicious food ! '' Kurenai showered her with praises. All of team 8 except for Shino, began to moan in delightful taste of the heavenly delicacy that was dancing in their mouth with their taste buds.

'' I'm afraid that I'll get addicted to your cooking. '' Kiba chimed.

' Bring your own damn food next time you ass-sniffing bastard. ' Naruto grumbled in his mind.

Naruto was not happy, sharing was not his speciality especially things from Hinata. He could share other things if he wants it of that person asking was in dire need of it. But Hinata? He might actually punch that bastard in the face for even asking.

'' N-Naruto-kun ~ '' He heard a sweet voice calling for him .

He turned to see a blushing and fidgeting Hinata holding a piece of chicken with chopsticks in front of his face.

'' Say AAAHHH~ '' she said trying to feed him.

' Today is the happiest day of my life! ' Naruto took the chicken with happy smile on his face.

' Hinata. ' Kurenai found it to be soo cute.

But Kiba gagged at the disgusting display of public affection.

Shino, on the other hand was contemplating. ' will a day come for me that I can recieve such affection. '

After their late lunch, Team 8 and Kurenai gathered together infront of Naruto. With a bow, they thank him for the help they received from him for the past week.

Naruto simply shrugged it off with a '' Nah, it alright . ''

'' Alright, I have a meeting with my friend at the tea shop, so I will be taking my leave now. '' Kurenai declared as she disappeared from their sight. Naruto then confirmed that she was truly gone as he did not felt her presence.

'' My mother wanted me to come home early, so I should get going. '' Hinata also left.

The sky had already darkened and just like Hinata, both Kiba and Shino had families to return to.

But before they could leave, a clawed hand grabbed both of their shoulders. And they flinched in fear as they know who it was.

They turned around only to see Naruto looking at them from his superior height with cold and emotionless eyes that seemed to glowed in the darkness.

'' I'm sure the both of you know, what I am going to discuss with you two. Right? ''

'' Yes. '' They replied. This was bound to happen and it was happening right now.

'' Since, I will be leaving your team and will joining another team. I expect you both to protect Hinata with your lives, because... '' Naruto came face to face with them.

'' If I see even a single scratch on her... you know what I did to those bandits a few day ago right? ''

They both nodded, even Akamaru was nodding lest he inflict Naruto's wrath on himself.

The bandits Naruto mentioned was from the mission they took a few days ago which was a C - ranked one.

Their mission was to seach and destroy a bandit's camp. It was simple enough, as per the agreement, Naruto was not to kill them only capture them which he did along with team eight.

All the bandits were captured and tied on tree trunks, to be them arrested and put to prison by another team to ninjas.

But that didn't happened. During the fight against the bandits, Hinata was unlucky enough, to be attacked by a Katana from one of the bandits receiving a small slash wound on her arm.

Naruto had to supressed the need to kill the bastard that moment. But he could not supress it for too long.

When all of Team 8 and Kurenai were asleep, Naruto went to the tied up bandits and unleashed all his pent up rage on them.

Kiba, Akamaru and Shino went to empty their bladders and were unlucky enough to witness what Naruto did to those bandits. And they were completely horrified at the savagery and cruelty of Naruto's wrath.

When the team of ninjas that were supposed to bring the bandits to prison came. They were greeted with a bloody scene.

The bandits were all dead.

And their death was a very painful one.

One of the bandits was gutted and his intestines were dangling out from the large hole on his belly. They assumed that when he was gutted, he was still alive.

Another had no eyes, because they were inside his mouth.

Another had his both arms and legs pulled apart and was thrown twenty feet away.

And another with the most horrific death they could never imagined. He was gutted, but his intestines were not inside his body. They were used as ropes to hang him from the neck.

Many more were there, but that was not the problem. The problem was that a very dangerous murderer was roaming the Land of fire and God knows what he is doing out there.

They did not know that Naruto was the one responsible... Except Kiba, Akamaru and Shino.

'' W-We will protect her with our lives! '' Kiba declared.

'' I hope you do. ''

[ The next day ]

Naruto was assigned to another team and frankly he was very disappointed with it.

'' Naruto-kun, Welcome to team 11. '' Asuma greeted him with a hand shake.

'' As you can see my team is a bit disfuntional, but i believe they can achieve great things some day. ''

' I don't know about that. But all I see is a pineapple headed lazy bastard, a blonde bitch and a fatso. '