Naruto watched in trepidation as the mist cleared, and two figures were revealed. They wore black cloaks, imprinted with red clouds, meaning they belonged to an organization. Wordlessly she made a clone to go get Kakashi. She had to be careful here. She looked at Shikamaru, who was crouched, fingertips touching.

His eyes opened, and he stood. "Naru," He started quietly. "I can't form much of a plan here. I don't know their strengths or weaknesses. Just, don't die, okay? I'll take the one with the lesser reserves. I'll leave the other to you. Asuma-sensei-"

"I'm with you Shikamaru. I know who the one you are fighting is. You need all the help you can get."

Naruto bit her lip, worried. "Shika....Stay alive. For Hinari."

Shikamaru nodded, and they gathered their chakra. Shikamaru flashed through handseals, slamming his hands on the ground.

"Kuchiyose: Yoru!" He called. He gritted his teeth as an inky black rose off of his arm, and a Gamabunta sized Yoru materialized next to Shikamaru.

"You called?"

"Yoru, will you assist me in battle?"

"It would be a pleasure."

Shadows from trees, tools, clouds, any shadow moved towards Yoru, swirling around. Naruto turned to her opponent. She let Kurama's chakra flood her, and rushed the enemy. The man scoffed, and pulled a huge bandaged sword off his back. The bandages unraveled a bit, and a scaled blade peeked out.

"Careful kit, his sword eats chakra."

"Okay." She would have to be smart about this then.

"Tch. A brat is all I get? This'll be easy."

Naruto growled. "Fuuton: Fuuchuufuyuu no Jutsu!"

Nearby equipment rose and shot towards the enemy, who swiped his sword in front of him, blocking the objects. While his vision was blocked, she used her bloodline and flashed behind him, slashing at him with her kunai. He barely moved in time, but still managed to get a deep cut down his sword arm.

"Tch. Brat." He used his other hand to hoist his sword, and swung at her. The sword reached out towards her, likely for her chakra. She quickly flashed away, reappearing just out of range. She began to flash around him, trying to get him angry enough to lose control of rational thought.

He began to grow annoyed, and spun around, kicking her in the stomach. She coughed, blood flecking her lips, and she flew back, slamming into the bridge and skidding across the ground. She winced. A few ribs were broken, and a lung had ruptured, making it hard to breathe.

"Kura....ma?" She panted shortly.

"On it. hold on a minute longer. Your lung is in bad shape."

She nodded, and watched the enemy slowly advance towards her. She took a shuddering breath as she tried to stand, air filling her newly healed lung. She clutched her stomach as she felt her ribs heal, an uncomfortable itch. The enemy stopped in surprise.

"A brat like you should be out from a hit like that." He said.

Naruto scowled. "I'm no ordinary brat." She glanced over to where Shikamaru and Asuma was. Asuma was on the ground, out cold, and Shikamaru had something around his eyes.

Shikamaru was worried. Asuma had merely looked the guy in the eyes before collapsing. Yoru had then wrapped his eyes in shadow. He wasn't used to fighting blind. "Yoru-"

"Listen to the shadows."

Shikamaru let the shadow whisper to him, and he dodged several blows. Soon though he couldn't keep up, and was being pounded. The shadow bind flew off, and Shikamaru met-

Blue eyes. 

Naruto grabbed him and teleported away from the two enemies. Yoru shrank, until he was the size of a horse. She flashed back, landing quick and undoubtedly annoying strikes on their two adversaries. 

While they were seemingly distracted, Shikamaru noticed Kakashi flying towards them, headband lifted. He saw Naruto fighting the two, and his eye widened.

"That's Kisame Hoshigaki and Itachi Uchiha!" He said.

Naruto's ear twitched."Itachi?" She said, appearing next to Kakashi. She looked at 'Itachi.'

Yep that was him. She flashed in front of him. "Why-" She was cut off, forced to flash away from black fires. The flames hit the bridge. Kakashi's eyes widened, and he tried to douse them using a water jutsu. They wouldn't go out.

Naruto slapped a seal on the ground, and the flames were sucked up, sealed away.

Suddenly she could sense nearly two hundred chakra signatures approaching the bridge. She touched down beside Shikamaru, and watched as an army of thugs with Gato at the head marched onto the bridge.

"Ninja are so expensive, and even you, S-class ninja, can't kill an old bridge builder and a handful of brats. No worry, I'll dispose of you all." Gato's voice was annoying, high pitched and whiny.

Itachi sighed. "Kisame. We're leaving." 

Kisame nodded, and the two disappeared. Kakashi grabbed an unconscious Asuma and set off to the side, running a diagnostic jutsu over him. 

"I trust you two can deal with this?" He asked the two genin.

"Hai. Leave it to us."

Red-gold flickered around Naruto as her eyes flitted about, pin-pointing vital areas on nearly fifty men. She pulled out a kunai.

Shikamaru flared his chakra, and the shadows whipped around. His hair darkened, and he became sheet white. He looked like a ghost.

Like a switch was flipped, Naruto disappeared. When she reappeared, the fifty men she had locked on to, dropped dead.

Shikamaru smirked, and wordlessly performed a Kageton: Wangetsu Getsui no Yaiba. The crescent blade swept out in a wide arc, taking down nearly sixty men before dispersing. Both genin felt the massive chakra drain like a punch in the gut. The rest of the men stalled. Over half of their forces defeated in a second. They dropped their weapons and ran, terror clutching their hearts.

Naruto's red-gold hair swayed behind her as her eyes, colder than ice chips, stared Gato down. She slowly walked towards him, using a silent Fuuton: Fuuchuufuyuu to make an abandoned wakizashi to fly into her hand. She let it trail across the ground as she neared Gato. He was frozen in place by those eyes.

"Gato," Her voice was like an angel, to him, coming to deliver judgement. "For the crimes you have commited, you will die."

The last he saw was a blonde pivoting, and a flash of metal before everything went black.

Naruto scrunched up her nose as Gato's head rolled across the bridge. She kicked hs swaying body off the bridge and sealed his head in a kill scroll. She looked around, the bloodied bridge and the bodies sinking in. She walked over to Shikamaru, steps wobbly. When she reached him, she fell into his arms, sobbing.

She had killed fifty-one people today. People who likely had a family waiting for them, or a friend to miss them.

And she killed them without a second thought.

Shikamaru hugged the blond, crying himself. He had killed more, but it hadn't been direct. Naruto had directly killed them, still had blood on her hands, and flecking her cheek. He was clean, not a speck of blood on him. Still, a kill was a kill. He had taken lives. No matter how good or bad, a life was a life.

Kakashi just watched, nothing but sympathy in his eyes. He placed a hand on each of their heads, before leaving, hoisting a unconscious Asuma and carrying him to Tazuna's.

The bridge was finished, and the few who had witnessed the fight from afar gave the two genin nicknames. Naruto was the Wind Flash and Shikamaru was the Shadow Guardian. As the two teams left for Konoha, Asuma still out of it, They named the bridge The Whirling Deer Bridge, In honour of Naruto and Shikamaru. (Naruto is Whirling due to her Uzumaki..)

Naruto and Shikamaru had gained something from the mission. The glint in their eyes that said they'd killed, and were capable of killing. They were quiet on the way home, tired and wanting to see Hinari.

Zabuza and Haku were going to sneak through the Nara forest with a note for Shikaku from Shikamaru. They had a seal that carried a Nara scent so the deer wouldn't attack. Naruto would then let them rent an apartment, and get the Sandaime to register them as Konoha Shinobi.

AN// A dull ending to a chappie, but hey..... I have no excuse. Tell me how ya liked it. 

Question: If you were any Naruto character, who would you be? Give an impression that will make anyone believe your answer.

My Answer: I would be.... Naruto. "Hey! Who're you? Nice ta meetcha! Wanna go get some ramen 'ttebayo? AWSOME!! Hey sensei! Stop reading those pervy books and train me!"

Or Sasuke. "Hn."