Naruto The Warlord

Chapter 21

"Fuck!", Naruto roared, flailing his hands angrily in the air after he threw his halberd to the ground. He was currently within the confines of his tent. En and Shou was inside with him, but they remained by the entrance with varying expressions. En remained motionless, his hands clasped together at his back with a neutral expression, while Shou looked worried upon Naruto as he raged. "FUCK!", Naruto roared again, loosing control of the Kyuubi's chakra as it infected and distorted his voice. Stomping into his tea table, it splintered to a thousand pieces and made Shou flinch. En remained as still as stone.

Rubbing his temples, Naruto closed his eyes and forced himself to breathe calmly. He was angry, so, so angry, with the situation they found themselves in. The Kyuubi's chakra eventually receded again, but the maddening anger lingered even as he brought it back under control.

After a minute of silence, En cleared his voice.

"You done?", En drawled slowly, his tone unamused.

His anger rearing it's ugly head again, Naruto threw a warning glare towards his Iron Guard Commander. The last thing he needed right now was for En to press his buttons.

"Warlord.", Shou muttered carefully, taking a step forward as he noticed the tension. "What is going on? What has the assassin revealed that's provoked you like this?"

Pulling himself together, Naruto drew a shuddering breath and gathered his thoughts.

The girl had laid herself completely bare before him after his threats in order to save herself of her imagined fate. Unfortunately for Naruto, she'd revealed information that had horrible implications.

"The girl's name...", Naruto began with a low, hissing voice. He threw a narrowed glare to En, daring him to continue to push him, before giving his men his back as he leaned onto a support pole of the tent. "...Is Kurotsuchi. 'Granddaughter' of the current Tsuchikage in 'Hidden Stone Village', back in 'Earth'."

Silence was his answer as Shou gasped and En lost some of his cool stature with the widening of his eyes.

"Oh.", Shou breathed dumbly after a moment.

"Yes.", Naruto hissed, glaring off into nothing as his hands clenched angrily. He was already trying to think of ways to turn this into his advantage, but this was yet another hassle he could have done without. "...'Oh'... That about sums this up."

"What else did she reveal?", En pushed, his expression for once being one with worry. "Did she say why the Tsuchikage would send his own granddaughter on such a mission?"

"Apparently...", Naruto drawled slowly, the fingers of his right hand rubbing together thoughtfully. "...She's next in line to succeed her grandfather, but she's lacking experience in certain fields. Her specialty is combat, NOT assassination, which is obviously why it was so easy for me to turn it all around on her. This was supposed to have gone quietly, nobody knowing what had happened until the day after." Naruto shook his head, putting the momentary digression behind him. "This was her first assassination contract as a part of Stone's ANBU unit. A solo mission, but their information was flawed. They had no idea of who I was or of my status as a Jinchuriki, which is why her first choice was to try and poison me. She made a stupid decision to stay and complete her mission, no matter what, despite her failed first attempt." Naruto chuckled lowly. "Honestly, I fucking wish she'd used her head and returned home."

"It certainly would have saved ourselves some trouble.", Shou grimaced. "She mention why she's here? Why now?"

"Why else? It's because of our 'crimes' from Kisara.", Naruto said, drawling sarcastically when he mentioned their crimes. Kurotsuchi had been adamant about that, leaving no doubts as to why their Daimyo had employed them to hunt down Naruto.