The Path Of a Hunternin

Hunter's fear

After Naruto left Hana to return to the village, Naruto found a little hotel to stay. Looking at the bingo book, he was surprised to see that the last one on the list was the last C level missing-nin on the book. So far, he didn't consider as much of a challenge being a hunter-nin, however he knew that missing-nins weren't given ranks by abilities alone. As he turned to look at the B ranked ones, he acknowledged that they are indeed much more cunning than the c ranked level ones. Naruto was stunned that the B ranked ones are composed of ex-jounins and wondered if he had the ability to deal with a person of this level. "You'll need to train more indeed if you want to be on equal terms with people of this level. Tomorrow, we'll be increasing your pace, as well as train more ninjutsu. For the B ranked missing-nins, you'll need katon ninjutsu aside from fuuton. I'll teach you one high level katon ninjutsu and we'll also improve your Fuuton Rasenshuriken (Wind Release: Spiral Shuriken Jutsu). Now with improvement regarding wind manipulation, we could finally complete that jutsu" – Said the Kyuubi to which Naruto nodded.

After learning Fuuton Kaze Saishuu (Wind Release: Wind Gathering Jutsu), Naruto was wondering whether or not he could finish the Rasenshuriken, simply because he was now a master at wind manipulation. The only question now was how. No matter how much Naruto changed the Yondaime's original technique, every rasengan based technique was limited to close-ranged attack and Naruto wasn't entirely comfortable with that anymore. Charging the technique and then attacking the enemy ends up giving a tunnel vision to the blond and gives the enemy time enough to just dodge and attack Naruto and that was something he didn't want to. "Not to mention that all the times you used, you failed to hit the enemy every single time. You only managed to hit that Kabuto because you had to hold his hand for dear life. Now that you managed to add fuuton chakra to the rasengan, we can try throwing the spiraling shuriken" – Explained Kyuubi, earning a thinking pose from Naruto.

"Throwing the rasengan was something even Jiraya couldn't do, not either Yondaime. Jiraya once told me that once the rasengan escaped the hand's grasp, it was impossible to maintain the rotation and the spiraling ball ends up dissipating" – Said Naruto to which Kyuubi thought about something as well, getting an idea which might work. "I admit that is quite difficult to maintain the technique once it escapes from the hand, however with fuuton chakra spinning around the ball, the rotation will remain until the attack hits the target".

"Well, it's getting late, the last one on the c ranked missing-nins is close to here so I'll rest for today and we could hunt her in the morning" – Said Naruto before going to bed and rest. Ikazuki Misao escaped the village after witnessing the death of her lover for unknown reasons. When Naruto read the name of the man, he was surprised to see that he was an Uchiha by the name of Shisui. Truth be told, Naruto didn't know who this man was. According to the book, Misao was gone rogue for ten years now and this time, the blond was only six years old. Also, Naruto was reluctant to kill Misao. The woman's only crime was only to leave the village and nothing else. Naruto was also wondering why no hunter-nin ever went after her, seeing that the woman was gone for more than ten years now and thus far, her page was not scrapped off the book.

-In Konoha-

Looking at the village on the horizon, Hana stopped to check on Kuromaru's pups only to see both of them sniffing the huskies triplets. She smiled upon realizing that with the help of that hunter-nin, which she had the conviction it was indeed Naruto, the Inuzuka family was now complete once again. She remembered how easily the hunter-nin interacted with one of her triplets. It was really the first time someone outside the Inuzuka clan every managed to do this and Hana wondered what the dogs thought of that hunter-nin. Truth be told, the Inuzuka clan measured their lovers firstly by how he or she interacts with the dogs.

Changing the subject quickly inside her mind, Hana entered the village and signed some papers with Izumo and Kotetsu. After that, she went to her house to drop the pups and then she would step inside the Hokage's office. Walking through the village, she greeted some of her acquaintances. A while later, she bumped into Kurenai and the two turned to talk a little while charging towards the Inuzuka compound; Kurenai asked where Hana went and also asked why two more dogs. Hana smiled and explained to the crimson eyed jounin that the two new ones were rescued with the help of a hunter-nin. Kurenai was suspicious when said ninja position appeared. Kurenai often times wondered how Naruto was doing out there since it's been a while and she received no news of him.