Jealousy

Asuma was seen in a bar pouring sake after sake inside his mouth like a mad man. He couldn't believe for one second that the kyuubi brat took Kurenai away from him. He is only sixteen, goddamit, I'm her age and a bloody jounin, I started fighting before that brat was even born. What he has that I don't have?' All of these thoughts passed through the bearded shinobi as he continued to pour sake. Meanwhile, Kakashi entered the bar in search for at least a thing to do, since the ones he know, namely Uzumaki Naruto, Uzuki Yuugao, Yamato, Anko, were either in Anbu duty or torturing someone for gaining information and Gai, well Kakashi didn't want to hear about 'fire of youth' speeches from his rival. He studied the bar for a while, seeing a few chunnins celebrating the outgoing of their mission to Iwa where they managed to disband an entire army of bandits away. Then Kakashi spotted Asuma near the bartender asking to serve him more sake, which Kakashi figured it was maybe the 10th round, since he could practically smell the alcohol coming out of Asuma.

"Hello Asuma, what you up to? – Asked Kakashi, before ducking one of Asuma's trench knifes that passed on top of his head and hit a bottle on the other side of the bar. "Beat it, Kakashi, I don't want to talk about it" – Mumbled Asuma, showing a behavior typical of a pure macho, but inside he was fuming with rage, but the scarecrow was tough to convince. "Normally, I would leave, knowing that it would be too troublesome to hear it (Kakashi is lazy as well as Shikamaru), but since I don't have anything to do, I figure a little talk would be nice, seeing that I may know what you're so down about" – Said Kakashi, already reading his orange book much to Asuma's dismay and sigh. "It's your damn student, that kyuubi brat" – Said Asuma applying a strong grip on his cup, not able to break it but to show how angry he was just for Kakashi to sigh since he already foreseen such behavior from the bearded friend. Normally, Kakashi wouldn't even care about this, but since the reason of the guy's madness involved Naruto, he was going to try and ease the guy if things would go worse and he decides to attack Naruto physically. "What about him? Oh you mean his relationship with Kurenai-san?" – Said Kakashi, again evading the other trench knife. "YES. What the hell did he do to her to brainwash her, I mean I can't come with a reason for Kurenai to want to be with Uzumaki."

"Well, he saved her life once when Kurenai went to a mission to Iwa to gather information. She was attacked by two Iwa Anbus and Naruto took them down and saved her. After that, they stayed with each other until her mission was to be reported to Tsunade-sama. I guess then they kind of felt something for one another I don't know." – Related Kakashi, seeing Asuma's expression changing a little bit, but still wasn't enough. "So, only because he saved her, does that mean that she has to be with him, that's ludicrous, Kakashi. It's not some regular kunoichi who fell in love with her savior, Kurenai is a jounin for cry sake, she was a jounin by the time he was a genin". – Scowled Asuma in a way that it looked like he was exhaling smoke through his nostrils quite like a bull. "True, but I don't think that Kurenai AKA 'The ice queen of Konoha' would melt for someone who just saved her from danger. But I don't know what happened between them after he saved her and her team, but I assume that was more to it than just her appreciation to Naruto for saving her". – Said Kakashi, knowing that Asuma would see what he was going to talk after that, without actually needing to. "I guess" – Said Asuma, now demonstrating the real emotion he was feeling, lack of pride. Asuma was a veteran warrior, so it was safe to say that his pride went to the roof, after staying alive while enduring most battles. 'Huh, I bet that kid didn't see near as much as I did'.

Right now, Asuma was smirking, but to Kakashi he felt what the intention was, since Kakashi had the ability of reading everyone like an open book, well except Naruto, to whom he quitted trying to figure him out since they were jounin and genin. "If you're thinking Asuma, that Naruto isn't as tough as you or as experienced as you in battle, you're quite wrong. I believe Asuma, that a little word about Naruto is in order here, if you want to hear." – Kakashi took the silent as an authorization for him to start talking.

"Apart from keeping the kyuubi trapped inside his body, which I believe that itself it's a feat to be remembered, but he also had to take all Konoha's pain and loss from the Kyuubi battle only to him for his own life. All his life he was hated for something he didn't do or asked to bear. So, on his 10th birthday, when he was running away from a mob of villagers and chunnins, he ended up falling and was beat quite a lot. For no reason at all, he started to smile at the mob of villagers. Naruto was covered in blood all over his body, but he just offered the crowd one of the sweetest kid smiles I've ever seen, hoping that they would let him go and surprisingly it worked. I know that because I was the one who took him to the hospital on that day. Since then, Naruto kept his smile mask as a way to divert attention from what he carries inside him, hoping that the crowd would just let go. When Naruto left for a training trip with Jiraya-sama, he took off his mask and started crying for a whole month, from so much bottled emotions inside of him. When he arrived, everyone that knew him could see that something was supposedly wrong with him, because of his new face of determination and seriousness way beyond his age experience. After some time, when he managed to capture Sasuke and got him back, I don't know if you believe or not, but the council wanted to strip Naruto from his ninja rank, since they thought that Naruto wanted to kill Sasuke" – Said Kakashi, seeing the wide-eyed expression on Asuma who happen not to know about that.

Asuma never stop to see the mystery that was the Uzumaki Naruto. If what Kakashi said was true, then Naruto did have a tough life growing up. Asuma's pride was clouding his judgment on the boy and he was surprised to see that even though how much he's done to Konoha, nobody recognizes him as the village's savior. Asuma was fuming at what he could shiver at the life of deception and treason that the blonde endured and even though he rescued the last Uchiha, the council used it as an excuse to frame him and kill him. Asuma interrupted his thoughts as Kakashi cleared his throat and began talking again. "Because of such deception through his life, Naruto used the hokage dream as also one kind of mask, so everyone would question his dream and he would prove them wrong. Naruto became Anbu after returning with Sasuke, with a simple wish. Protect Konoha behind the curtains. He want to aid Konoha, not at all caring about names or legends and that's saying much from who his father was". – Said Kakashi, earning a sad smile from Asuma, while remembering about the Sandaime Hokage and himself growing wanting to be acknowledged in life and Naruto was all alone in life.

"Kakashi, listen I know that the kid had a tough life and I didn't know about the whole Sasuke thing, but the thing is even though Kurenai and I dated, I could always see confusion and sadness through her eyes and I thought I could change that for her. But now that I knew why she was like that, it's was because of Naruto and it pains me to see that Naruto was the one to help her." – Whispered Asuma, now feeling jealous at the blonde for being the one who was there for the red-eyed beauty. "That's Naruto for you, Asuma. No matter what he does or how he does, he always ends help change everyone's heart for the better. Even though, he no longer is the same as before, he managed to help people. I heard from Jiraya about Naruto's training trip as he helped a group of little orphans in Kumo when he took his chunnin exams there. He is no longer a boy, he is a man. A man who embraced his destiny, a man who embraced his burden, a man who shall protect Konoha with everything he had". – Said Kakashi, finishing the short version of Naruto's life until now to which Asuma calmed down and decided to go to sleep. "I think I'll leave now Kakashi, a little sleep may calm my nerves" – Said Asuma, leaving without wanting to hear Kakashi even if he wanted to say anything.

-On the next day-

On the next day, Asuma got out of his apartment and went to his team's training ground when he felt a strong presence coming near him in a blur Focusing more chakra, he was able to spot the one foe he was looking forward to settle some accounts with. Upon making his decision, Asuma started to follow him in order to confront him. Asuma's pride was getting in the way of rationality once again even if did remember Kakashi's little story about the blonde. He only considered Kurenai a trophy or an instrument of conquer now and his warrior side would as hell win the trophy. Suddenly, Naruto just stopped on the next building and watched Asuma passing by him in a quick blur. When Asuma realized what happened, Naruto was waiting for him on top of the building he stopped before.

Asuma was pissed, he was lost in wonderings and his opponent figured it out sooner than expected. Asuma wanted to go to a place that didn't bring attention so that they could settle some things. When Asuma landed on the building, he turned to stare at Naruto for a bit, studying his reactions. But so far he couldn't see any emotions on the blonde's hidden face, even his eyes were emotionless…Just who is this kid? Not even Itachi had such emotionless face. For a while, Asuma continued to study the blonde's face, but to no avail, it seemed that the one in front of him was a mindless clone, one without feelings, without hot blood running down his veins. Asuma never faced an opponent like this before, because of Naruto's zero display of emotions, Asuma couldn't tell when he would attack, where or how. Asuma was afraid of such a guy. The possibilities were endless.

From Naruto's part, he continued to stare at Asuma with emotionless face. Such face was actually hilarious to the blond, whoever the enemy was, they always became hesitant upon seeing him like this. Naruto didn't know what Asuma wanted with him. He sighed knowing that he would reach Anbu Hq early. Even though he still had some time left, he didn't want to waste his time with the bearded jounin. Naruto's instincts were on and he somehow thought that Asuma wouldn't come all the way here just to say hello. Somehow, Naruto figured that the jounin was upset about something and deep inside his guts, he knew what it was, since he thought of the possibility of doing the same thing to Asuma in a desperate way to win Kurenai's heart, but back then what stopped him was the fact that Kurenai appeared to be happy with Asuma, so he threw the idea off the window. Now, Naruto was looking up to what could be him if Kurenai hadn't appeared near the lake that day.

Back to Asuma, his attempts of studying reactions were almost over, when he saw the blue eyes of his opponent appear, letting Asuma know that the Anbu wasn't insane or lost his mind while serving with Anbu. So he decided that to have a little conversation with the teenager, you know show who's the grownup here. Oh so wrong he would be after it, but now he was overconfident. "So, Black Wolf, what's with the hurry?" – Said Asuma, leading the conversation. "Late for work, you know how it is" – Answered Naruto, not saying what Asuma wanted, like showing some guts to the bearded shinobi or trying to attack. No, Asuma very well expected that an Anbu wouldn't fall for treat talks. "Huh, I do. Actually sounding like a man, but still you has to take off the diapers, kid." – Said Asuma, smirking from putting the Anbu down like he would berate Shikamaru or Chouji, being these two his students, but such attempt was to no avail "It's never wise to underestimate anyone, Asuma-san, so why don't you cut the crap and tell me why you were following me in the first place?" – Said Naruto, keeping his cool, actually sounding like Kakashi's coolness, who by the way was watching Asuma and Naruto's little confrontation, since he knew that Asuma wouldn't let go.

Kakashi was right about following Asuma to see if he would like to settle things with his ex-student. He already went on a couple of missions with Asuma and he already figured Asuma as a pride general, never admitting his defeat towards the enemy. Now Asuma is facing the most unpredictable opponent in Konoha, Uzumaki Naruto. None even Kakashi could see what Naruto's all out mean, since when Naruto was a genin, he were that stupid emotional mask, hindering his actual skills and Kakashi knew that Naruto's test to get in Anbu was only a percentage of his abilities. But he wasn't concerned with the outcome of Asuma and Naruto's battle, since these two were the strongest wind users in Konoha, well they are the only wind user in Konoha.

Back to the little argument, Asuma was getting quite irritated with the blond opponent; his little psychological threat was not working on the supposed inexperienced Anbu. Quite on the contrary, Naruto remained stoic as ever, since he decided not to waste his brain on empty threats of a fellow shinobi, much to Asuma's light anger and Kakashi's smirk, since he figured Anbu training actually does that to people. "So, quite tough you are, Black Wolf, or should I say Uzumaki Naruto" – Said Asuma, as a last resort. He knew that Anbu were picky on hiding their identities, since they were in theory dangerous to foreign shinobi and could be an extreme liability if the enemy knew the Anbu's identity. Upon hearing this, Kakashi closed his book and slapped his hand at his headband, cursing Asuma's ridiculous plot. It it were him, he would be sent to Ibiki for questioning, since that was Anbu protocol and he was afraid Naruto would do just that. But upon seeing the Anbu's reaction, Kakashi was relieved a little bit. Naruto wouldn't do anything that much was certain, well at least if Asuma doesn't attack him there is.

"Asuma-san, you said you are a grown up, yeah, a jounin, but with that ridiculously stupid attempt of yours to make me angry just shows how ill equipped you are to handle a real life threatening situation. Frankly I would say that a regular chunnin could have a better result than you did, don't you think?" – That did it! To say that Asuma was angry would be an understatement, he was very pissed. Who the hell does this midget thinks he is? I'll show him. "Ah Naruto, now you pissed him off. Now let's see if you have the abilities to back your words." – Said Kakashi already with his sharingan active in preparation to see the fight.

With chakra enhanced feet, Asuma vanished and appeared in front of the Anbu with the intent to strike him, but to no avail since Naruto already shunshined out of the way before Asuma could swing his wind enhanced trench knife. When Asuma turned his back, he saw the Anbu staring at him with sad eyes, much to the surprise of Asuma and Kakashi. Tears were dropping on the black mask as if suddenly the weight of being in Anbu suddenly got a hold into his sanity. "Is that sadness I see in your eyes, Black Wolf?" – Asked Asuma in confusion. "Yes it is. Sadness because the fact that I know the reason why you're doing this. It's about Kurenai-chan, isn't it?" – Asked Naruto to which Asuma was taken aback by it. Naruto was sad with such display of emotion and Kakashi sighed, knowing why Naruto was crying. Since Naruto returned from retrieving Sasuke, Kakashi figured Naruto would threat the bearded shinobi, quite like he was threatening Naruto right now and the thought of doing something like this actually disgusted Naruto. To think that Kurenai was a trophy to be won after a battle was disgusting and he would damn well show that to Asuma.

"Asuma, if you think that Kurenai-chan is just a prize for you to win after the battle, I can already tell you, I lost all respect for you." – Said Naruto, now showing his signature feral grin that managed to stop Asuma from trying anything to Naruto. Naruto was showing a mix between sadness and anger, because of the jounin's actions. "If you wanted to fight with me as a way of testing your skills, trust me I would be glad to spar with you, Asuma, but seeing that all you care about Kurenai-chan, as a god damn trophy for you to win in case you even win this battle, I can tell in advance, you already lost it. You see when I arrived from my training trip with Jiraya-sama, I was devastated upon seeing you with her but then I figured she was happy, so I thought that you were a great shinobi that would be able to offer her protection and love, but seeing that all you wanted was to hold her as a trophy, I can say with all certainty, you stink as a human being" – Said Naruto, now with his feral grin at maximum, not only making Asuma shiver but also Kakashi was not feeling so well, since he didn't remember seeing that much killing intent in a long time.

"That's lot of bold words, kid, face me then and show me that I'm wrong". – Said Asuma getting free from Naruto's killing intent as well as throwing one of his knifes with kaze chakra at Naruto. Upon seeing the knife approaching, Naruto took off his katana and cut the knife in half with his kaze katana with an extreme swiping motion. Asuma, with a backup plan, raced at Naruto with his other knife, using Naruto's momentarily time dealing with the first knife and put the other on Naruto's neck, thinking he won the battle. "Yield Kid, I won." – Said Asuma, smirking, never taking the time to notice that Naruto was with his free hands, holding a fuuton rasengan inches from Asuma's stomach. "If I were you, Asuma-san, I would not say something like that and instead look down for a bit." – Said Naruto, leaving a confused Asuma and a wide-eyed Kakashi who only manage to see Naruto's rasengan because of the sharigan. "What? Look do…" - It was all Asuma could say, before he looked down to see the spiral ball surrounded by kaze chakra inches from his stomach, which would kill him instantly. Upon seeing this, Asuma turned to see Naruto's eyes and gasped with fear. Those were the eyes that made Naruto famous around Konoha as well as the enemies that survived his encounter.

"Asuma-san, I don't want you to be mad at me, for as I didn't do anything to deserve such a thing. As to Kurenai-chan, she is no trophy to be won after a battle. I love her deep down my heart and she chose the one to whom her heart belonged. Hell, when I arrived, I figured that she would choose you, seeing that you're together and I would never mess with that, since I know that the heart of someone isn't won by competition."- Said Naruto now showing his blue eyes but never dropping the rasengan until Asuma surrended. "It's hard for me to lose again, kid. But I can see that you're much stronger than me. At first, it was about Kurenai, but now I wanted to see just how strong you are and I can see you grown a lot. I'm very sorry, Naruto about what I did. Kakashi did tell awfully a lot of nice things about you. I guess I never got to know you like everybody else did. Don't worry about this fool before your eyes. Now, I want to see the face of my opponent, if you would grant me this wish." – Said Asuma, now feeling like a heavy burden just came out and he like everyone that Naruto came to encounter, was invigorated.

Upon hearing the bearded shinobi's request, Naruto nodded and took off his mask, showing his features to the bearded shinobi much to Asuma's utter shock. Naruto was literally Minato's clone and he showed the eyes of an experienced warrior, one that Konoha was, is and will be very proud of the once hyperactive knucklehead ninja Uzumaki Naruto. "I can see that you're strong Naruto and don't worry about me anymore, I'm not going to disturb you anymore with this issue." – Said Asuma already turning to leave but stopped when Naruto spoke. "Asuma-san, as I said before, if you want to fight as a way of testing your skills, I'll be glad and honored to." – Said Naruto with his foxy grin. "Huh, don't get cocky kid, just because you won this fight, doesn't mean you'll win the next round"

"I'll be waiting for it then, Asuma-san". – Said Naruto, before putting back his mask and leaving to Anbu Hq. Meanwhile, Kakashi couldn't be more proud of his student. Not only Naruto beat Asuma by performing one of the quickest rasengans Kakashi has ever seen, but managed to take Asuma off his thoughts as Konoha's stuck up general who never lost a fight. Kakashi turned to read his book again, when suddenly he addressed to another audience that was watching as well. "You were watching as well, Yuugao-san?" – Said Kakashi never turning to see the cat Anbu. "Kakashi-senpai, Hawk told me to go look for Black Wolf, so I came to look for him and found him here. I can see now what Kurenai-chan saw in him. He has a little bit of everything. Now that I finally saw what Black Wolf looks like, I can say that Kurenai-chan is very lucky to have a guy like Uzumaki Naruto." – Said Cat, earning wide eyes by Kakashi, but then a mischievous smile was noticeable. "Jealous, aren't you, Yuugao-san, just what would Hayate say if he knew about it?" – Teased Kakashi a little bit, earning a little blush of embarrassment from the Cat masked Anbu. "Don't speak nonsense, Senpai, I love Hayate but I can see why Kurenai likes Naruto so much and I can say that they are perfect for each other. Well, senpai, I have to go back to Hq, Black Wolf must be there already and Hawk-san must be looking for me." – Said Cat, almost leaving.

"Right, say hi to Hawk for me would you? Also I heard that Hawk and Black Wolf made a little rivalry in Anbu, is that right?" "Actually, it is. Naruto and Hawk are very good friends and equally strong. When they train together, the windows in Anbu hq always shatter and they vanish before taking responsibility for the damage. The chief knows that but he chose to stay silent, figuring that's how the strongest Anbu in the force trains." – Said Cat, sending an audible laugh at Kakashi who laughed as well, upon remembering Hawk when he was Anbu captain. "Ok, see you Yuugao-san."

After that, Kakashi went to reading his book in private, while Yuugao was racing towards the Anbu hq, trying to beat Black Wolf there, but set it aside, figuring he would be already there, seeing that he left about 10 minutes ago. While rushing through the buildings, Yuugao was remembering what Black Wolf looked like without the mask and she had to admit that the blonde was indeed good looking, very experienced and an actual splitting image of the deceased Yondaime Hokage. Thinking now about Kakashi's little comment, Yuugao couldn't help but feel ashamed in her head about thinking of betraying Hayate like that. No, Naruto is Kurenai's boyfriend…Naruto and Kurenai…damn it…such perverted thoughts again…What's wrong with me?...Ever since Kurenai told me how they got together, I couldn't help but imagine the scene every time on my head.

She was losing her mind so much that she didn't even notice that she was already inside Anbu Hq when she lifted her head and saw the one that was passing through her mind constantly, Black Wolf. Now seeing Naruto with his mask on, she was relieved. She was afraid of seeing him and start imagining him and Kurenai together and get in the way of their squad's missions together. Now, Black Wolf and Cat were in the same squad, along with Bear and Hawk as the squad leader. But since Naruto was a chunnin, he would have to take the Anbu jounin exams shortly, not that he wasn't already elite jounin level, this was just pure formalities. Upon seeing Cat arrive in wonderings, Hawk only sighed, since he sent her to see if Black Wolf was alright, but just when she left, Black Wolf arrived and ironically it was now Cat that was late. "Cat, where were you? Black Wolf has arrived ten minutes ago?" – Said Hawk in a chief sort of speaking. "Sorry Sir, I bumped into Kakashi-senpai and we ended up talking about some aspects. I lost the flow of time, it won't happen again, Hawk-taicho." – Said Cat, with an army salute manner, grasping in fear of knowing that Black Wolf was staring at her suspiciously.

"At ease, Cat. All right squad three, wait right here. I'm going to assess the chief for a mission for us." – With that said, Hawk vanished in a swirl of leaves, leaving Bear to stare at nothing with his arms crossed and Black Wolf to turn and approach Cat, much to her dismay, since she didn't want to talk to him when she was getting perverted images. "So, Cat, my suspicions were correct. It was in fact you there with Kakashi-sensei on that tree, looking at me and Asuma-san." – Said Black Wolf, earning a little shock coming from Yuugao. "How did you know it was me with Kakashi-senpai." – Said Yuugao taken aback at the accurate sense of awareness displayed by her teammate. "At first I didn't. I was only able to hear someone whispering somewhere, so I channeled chakra through my ear and managed to hear you and Kakashi-sensei's voice. Now, tell me what were you doing there?" – Said Black Wolf, wanting to know the motive behind the little stalking from the Cat Masked Anbu.

"Hawk-taicho asked me to see what happened to you, figuring you're always the first one to arrive at Anbu Hq, that's all, Black Wolf-san". – Said Yuugao in a polite manner, since she hadn't met him personally. "Oh, I apologize about the interrogatory part Cat-san, I guess I was just curious that's all". – Said Naruto, not wanting to press the manner further, but he knew that his teammate saw his face and he was again curious as to why she didn't say anything but let it slide. "It's alright. Tell me Black Wolf, if you don't mind me asking, why don't you take off your mask inside the Anbu Hq. Your identity wouldn't be harmed in anyway, right?" – Asked Yuugao, to which Naruto lowered his head, since he didn't have such a luxury. "Quite the contrary, Cat-san. I'm sure you saw my face back there and I'm well sure you know of what I carry inside of me. Another point is that fellow Anbus lost a lot of their families because of it, what would you think they would do if they found out who I am" – Said Naruto, surprisingly, demonstrating zero emotion upon his usually sad statement.

"You think people still judge you for it?" – Said Yuugao, taken aback by what the black masked Anbu said about still being guilt by what happened almost two decades ago. "It would be foolish not to think so, when you spent your whole life being looked down upon by almost everyone in the village, incuding some shinobis as well, Cat-san. Because of that, I only take off my mask when I'm guaranteed not to run into someone that doesn't judge me because of it. It maybe sound as a pursuit complex, as I'm sure you must think about me like that. But I got plenty of reasons not so show myself the same way as the others do." – Said Naruto, as he turned his back at Yuugao, since he sensed Hawk returning from the chief's office. "Well, at least our squad should know about this, don't they?"

"Hawk is my best friend here in Anbu and Bear was the one that made my assignment interview, so he knows as well. With you now seeing it, all the squad knows about it." "Well, okay then." – Sighed Yuugao in defeat. After a while, Hawk arrived with an A ranked mission scroll that happened to be an investigation mission for tonight. It seemed that around the south region of Konoha, there have been strange reports of an old mansion being cursed, since the ones who entered, never got out, so the hokage thought best and sent squad three to go check it out.

Upon arrival inside the house, Bear suddenly felt a chill ran up his spine, when seeing what was inside the house. Inside, they were corps lying on the ground motionless, bleeding all over the place. Squad three surveyed the area up to a place when Hawk's eyes came in contact with a mirror that somehow was reflecting a different image of their surroundings. As anyone would have guessed, Hawk thought that was a genjutsu casted all around the place by some ninja who wanted to scare everyone. With Black Wolf and Ace, the wolf was sniffing around. Black Wolf and Ace, just like Hawk, were suspicious of a genjutsu, but this genjutsu was somehow different from a normal one. Ace could very well sense a huge amount of chakra being used and he concluded that not even Naruto had that amount of chakra, who could only be a summon animal or even a demon. "Black Wolf, can you sense the amount of chakra being used here? It's like someone wasn't eager to have visitors at all." – Said Ace to which Naruto retorted. "I can sense the presence, but not the amount of chakra being used like you Ace, but somehow it looks like in order to dispel the genjutsu here, the dispel technique would have a similar amount of chakra in order to fully cancel it and we can see who or what's causing this" – Said Naruto as he was reading the drawings on the wall and thinking.

After some time, squad three surveyed the second and last floor of the mansion, coming near a rather big scroll displayed inside on the master rooms of the mansion. When Cat did her last step, a huge roar could be heard and the squad knew it came from the scroll. "What are the chances of this contract being a summon contract and the boss animal just doesn't want any visitors. I once read the story about the wolf boss directly before Fenrir-sama saying that he as well didn't want any visitors, so he hid the contract inside a cave and protected it with his life, until Fenrir-sama came and took his place as wolf boss." – Explained Ace. "Well, in that case, all we have to do is to burn the scroll and release this stupid mass genjutsu." – Said Black Wolf.

"Step aside, Bear and Cat. Black Wolf, joint attack number 1: Katon Fuuton Combination. "Right on it, Hawk-taicho." – Said Naruto with enthusiasm as he was once again working with alongside his friend and rival.

Fuuton Daitoppa (Wind Style: Great Breakthrough Jutsu)

Katon Gouyakyuu no Jutsu (Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu)

What could be described as a loud explosion, it was heard from Hawk's fireball in conjunction to Black Wolf's gust of wind, making the fireball grow in size and power. The results were visible and a huge hole behind the scroll could be seen, turning the scroll to ashes. Upon seeing that, Tsunade, while walking beside the haunted mission to see if the Anbu squad would solve the problem, suddenly saw the huge hole on the top and squad three appearing. She sighed thinking that they went a little bit overboard but at least managed to solve the problem, completing the assignment.

After seeing the hokage staring at them, the Anbu team jumped and kneeled in front of her, letting her know that the mission was complete. Upon seeing Black Wolf's mask, she smiled and greeted the team for a job well done. "So Hawk-san, good job on the mission, but couldn't your team be a little less noisy, I believe the entire city heard the explosion created." – Said Tsunade rubbind her head, wanting to send the bill for them to pay… again. Since Naruto entered the Anbu, there has been numerous requests for window repairs from inside Anbu hq and somehow she figured that Naruto would have a part in it, while training.

"Our apologies, Hokage-sama, it's just that Black Wolf and I used our combination in order to eliminate the threat as soon as possible. Actually the summon contract held a giant lizard that just got in our way and we had to destroy it." – Said Hawk. "I'm sorry, but I heard you say that you and black wolf used your combination, what's up with that?" – Asked Tsunade intrigued, cause she never heard of Anbus and combinated ninjutsu attacks. "Certainly, Hokage-sama. Black Wolf and I have been coming with combined attacks in order to maximize the power of our jutsus. For instance, what you witnessed was a mix of mine Katon Goyakyuu no Jutsu and Black Wolf's fuuton daitoppa. Together, the gust of wind literally double the fireball and the results, well you witnessed firsthand."

"I certainly did, so as half of Konoha. Well, good job, congratulations. Now dismissed" – Said Tsunade, before seeing different kinds of shunshin performed by the members of the team. Hawk did the Ho Shunshin no Jutsu (Fire Style: Body Flicker Jutsu), Black Wolf did the fuuton shunshin no jutsu, Cat made a regular shunshin and Bear used the Doton Shunshin no Jutsu (Earth Style: Body Flicker Jutsu).

Tsunade walked then to her home to rest. She thought about how Naruto's Anbu team handled their missions and considered a little commendation was in order for them. Since Kakashi and Itachi's team, no other team was so successful in missions and she was proud of the fact that Naruto belonged to that team and not only that but also the fact that he and Hawk could destroy an entire army with their combined jutsus. 'I can see why Kurenai had fallen for you, Naruto. You are quite a guy indeed. Oh if I was younger' – Sighed Tsunade, actually started to become jealous of the genjutsu mistress.