The Neglected Blue Ace of Konoha (New Cover)

Chapter 6

"Team Fairy Tail," said Minato as he handed Naruto the mission. Udon, Moegi, and Konohamaru were looking at each other when Naruto said "Yes, our team name is Fairy Tail. Now let's get going, I want to complete this mission in less than 2 weeks" as he turned to the trio "Meet me at the gate in 2 hours after you have said your goodbyes and packed your things." he then finished as they left the office. He then turned to Minato as he said: "Are you sure they can handle it?"

"Are you questioning my methods of teaching, Hokage?"

"N-no, of course not," he said as he held up his one, not broken, hand in a defensive position "I'm just worried that they'll get hurt"

"They won't, I'll make sure of it," said Naruto as he left the office, leaving Minato alone

"Kami," he said as he sat down "where did I mess up, and how will I make Naruto come back to us?"

2 Hours Later:

Naruto was reading one of his books (Not an Icha-Icha paradise, he only reads those when he knows that he won't be chased by angry women), when he turned up from his book to see that his students had everything they needed, "Are we ready?" he asked and he got the reply of three 'yeps' from them "Ok then, let's get going." as he put away his book and started walking with them following closely behind. After an hour Moegi asked "Sensei?"

"Yes"

"What's our mission?"

"Our mission is to exterminate some bandits and the sound-nin that's running the group"

"WHAT?! But we're only genin, we can't take on a full-fledged shinobi"

"Then why are you here?"

"Because we're shinobi," she said

"Exactly, you three will deal with the bandits while I deal with the ninja. Now let's speed up and get there faster, I'm getting bored" he said as he increased speed and started putting a strain on them. It took a few days to get to where the bandits were last seen, but they got there. Once they reached the village they saw what the bandits were capable of "Kami," said Udon as he looked at what was left of the small town, everything was burned to the ground and all was ashes, some of the ashes were still emitting some heat

"What happened here," asked Konohamaru

"What do you think, look around and search for survivors," said Naruto as they split-up around the town. As Naruto was rummaging through some rubble, he heard some moaning and some rubble moving. He quickly moved to where the sound was coming from and lifted up the crumbled house to find a woman and a man, and under them where three small children. There were two boys and one girl, the boys where about the same age at 6 but the girl looked about three years of age. They all looked up and saw Naruto standing there atop of them, he then called his team to help them when the man said with a raspy voice "please... take... care... of them" he said as he fell to the ground dead

"Natsu, Gajeel," said the woman with a raspy voice as well "please... take care... of your sister... and always... remember..." she said with tears in her eyes "we love you" and she fell to the ground next to the man

"Dad?" asked the pink haired boy as he shook him "Dad, please wake up" and tears started to fall from his eyes "Dad, Dad, DAD WAKE UP! DAD, PLEASE WAKE UP!" and the one with black hair was doing the same thing to the woman

"Mom this isn't funny. Wake up, please wake up. MOM! MOM! MOM WAKE UP". They cried for half-an-hour along with the girl, and Naruto looked at them with soft eyes and said in a low voice "come with us" and held out his hand

"W-w-why s-should we?" asked the one with pink hair

"Because we can take you away from this," said Naruto reverencing the burned-down town "now come on, your father said for me to take care of you three"