Mercenary

It didn't take long to reach training ground 7, I was explained how ninjas worked most of the time.

" Why did he tag along? " Tsunade asked.

" Well he has no money to get a hotel, so we didn't mind letting him tag along. " Sakura explained awkwardly while Naruto just smiled brightly like an idiot.

" Fine, well I guess I should explain why you've been brought here, we didn't get to finish our conversation because of someone. " Tsunade said looks at Sukuna who started walking towards the forest.

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' Hm, I've gained some of Sukunas memories on how his abilities works, dismantle, cleave, fire element, reverse cursed technique, domain expansion/amplification. I did ask for his abilities but, what version of him did I get? Status. ' Calling out status in his mind a white panel appeared in front of him.

[ Sukuna

Title: King of curses

Overall strength: 20 Fingers ( Peak Hashirama-Peak Naruto )

Extra ability: Absorb ]

' That's quite a little bit of data, but I guess I now know my strength, no one at the moment should be able to kill me, even if they had the ability I can regenerate quite easily. Good. ' Understanding his strength, he didn't have to worry about anything.

" Cleave. " Sukuna said with a devilish smirk.

A bit far away 3 people were cut in half, the root members who were assigned to watch Sukuna.

" They were starting to get annoying, I don't like stalkers. " Sukuna said cracking his neck.

" Since I have nothing to be afraid of at the moment, I should pay a certain someone a visit.

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After a few hours Naruto and Sakura finished their fight against Kakashi, it was an exciting match, a funny ending.

" That was amazing, never seen such a fight in my life. " Sukuna clapped as he walked to them.

" Huh? Who's that? " Kakashi asked confused.

" Oh he's the person that made that loud noise earlier, you were probably too busy reading to care though. " Tsunade explained walking back shaking her head.

" Ahaha, right… " Kakashi looked away embarrassed at how right she was.

" Congrats you two, from now on you two will be in team Kakashi, as Ninjas not as Sensei and student. " Tsunade said with a smile.

" Really?! " Sakura and Naruto shouted excitedly.

" Yes, why don't we go eat to celebrate? " Kakashi said smiling.

Naruto and Sakura agreed happily choosing Ichiraku ramen as their spot.

" I won't bother you guys anymore, I'll be leaving. My lady, you can treat me as a mercenary, if you need any help call me. " Sukuna said before walking away.

Everybody just watched him leave a bit confused,

" Do any of you even know how strong he is? " Tsunade asked Sakura and Naruto, how can she hire a mercenary who's strength is unknown to her? Naruto and Sakura shrugged before Jiraiya came out,

" I'm not sure how strong he is, but for some reason I felt shivers when I looked at him, I don't believe I'm that old for my senses to fail me, he's definitely strong. " Jiraya added.

" Hm, I guess if it's needed I'll look for him. " Tsunade said before turning back to the others.

" Wait, he said he didn't have any money, where is he going? I was actually going to offer him to sleep in my place. " Naruto asked confused.

" Hm, maybe he has a family member here? " Sakura questioned.

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" What do you want?! " The ninja yelled afraid.

His arm was ripped off and had claw marks on his body, he was scared, really scared.

" Where is Danzo? " A cold voice asked with a slight hint of enjoyment.

" I- I can't say! " The ninja shouted as he tried crawling away.

" Wrong answer. " while the ninja crawled away a arm went through his chest holding the ninjas heart.

" All of you are crawling like roaches all over the village, one of you should be able to tell me without dying. " The voice said crushing the heart.

" Finding this guy is a lot more annoying than I expected, I wish I read every detail in the manga, sigh. " Sukuna walked out from an alley with his hand bloodied before whipping the blood off his hand.

' Gaara should be dead already, hopefully she calls for me, absorbing Deidaras strength would be good. Sasori is basically a puppet, rather not deal with that.' Sukuna walked around slowly sensing for suspicious auras, most of them moved around or stalked certain people, it was quite easy to know if they were root or not.

Sukuna went through 50 of them before finding one with the ability to talk about danzo, most of the ones he killed or died trying to talk about Danzo.

" Lead me and I'll heal you, don't you want to live? "Sukuna said smirking at the armless ninja.

" O-Okay. " The ninja quickly got up before showing him the way.

After a few minutes we arrived to Danzos hidden cave,

" You can heal me now right? " The ninja begged.

" Ofcourse. " Sukuna said with a smile,

" Thank- " The ninjas neck was cut before he could finish but the horror in his eyes was visible,

" Oops, wrong skill. " Sukuna chuckled before entering the cave.

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" Shizune, what do you think of that guy? " Tsunade asked as she looked through her documents.

" Not sure, I only watched from afar. You're better at reading people, what do you think? " Shizune asked petting her pig.

" Not sure to be honest, he did ask for work though. He probably needs money to buy food and a apartment to stay in the village for a while. I don't have any secret missions to assign him, and the important missions isn't something I should let a mercenary do. If I do give him a A or S rank mission I should assign a Jonin or two to observe him. I've looked through all the data I have, I didn't see a single data about him, you would think he has a bounty as a mercenary no? " Tsunade explained as she passed Shizune the info.

" Hm, Naruto is pretty good at talking to people, maybe we should assign a mission to team Kakashi with this Sukuna person? That way Kakashi could observe him while Naruto gets him to talk about himself? " Shizune suggested making Tsunade agree.

" That's a good idea, I'll have to find a good enough mission for them and a good reason for a mission to take 4 people. " Tsunade said quickly looking through the missions requested.

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