Heaven, Earth, & The Flower: Assassins

Summary:
Following his public "death," 14-year-old Naruto is taken in by the surviving ten elders of the Namikaze-Uzumaki Brotherhood. Trained in the lethal, shadow-blending ways of the Creed, he dons the blank white mask and equips a Naoe-style stealth mantle, twin chakra-absorbing tanto, and a wrist-mounted Phantom Blade. As the canon timeline progresses toward the Chuunin Exams, Sakura and Ino are forced to confront a crushing truth: they brutally rejected the boy to whom their families had legally bound them through secret, ancient blood pacts. Now, as heirs to a famous samurai-merchant clan and a prominent shinobi clan learning of an elite intelligence network, the girls must uncover their mother's secrets, reckon with their guilt, and choose whether to join the shadows or be destroyed by them.
Content Warning:
Rated M for mature audiences. Features graphic violence, silent assassinations, blood, visceral combat injuries, emotional trauma, and mature themes.