Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Different Reality ❯ Mission Assignment ( Chapter 5 )

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A Different Reality

-Mission Assignment-

 

Kurenai, Asuma, and Genma now stood, lined up before the Hokage. It was an hour after the test had finished. Asuma had already delivered Kakashi to the hospital, after the battle with Naruto.

 

Kakashi's burn mark on his back could be healed effortlessly with the help of the medic nins at the hospital. It would heal well enough that one would not notice he had been burned there before, without intense searching. He was also suffering from minor charka exhaustion, but it was nothing serious, he would recover from it completely within an hour.

 

They stood now before the Hokage to report Naruto's test results, to determine his rank and status as a shinobi of the Leaf. The Hokage sat at his office desk, a pile of paperwork lay at his side.

 

The Sandaime stared at the three that stood before him, “So…What do you have to report?”

 

The three stood still, until Genma stepped forward. “Hokage-sama, from our observations we determined that his ninjutsu is high, taijutsu is average, and his genjutsu abilities are unknown. His ninjutsu has a wide variety, from what we have observed. He is level headed when he is fighting, and is careful with withholding information. He can strategize a fairly built tactic in battle that allows him to overwhelm his opponent, thus allowing him to defeat an enemy effectively. Though this is important, there was something that happened during the battle that raised our attention.”

 

The Hokage raised an eyebrow at the last statement, “What might that be?”

 

Asuma was the one to step forward this time, staring intently at the Hokage. “It appears he was able to stop the Sharingan from copying his techniques.”

 

The Sandaime's eyes widened, but he quickly regained his serious expression. “How did he do that?”

 

Asuma shook his head while sighing, “We're not sure, he wouldn't tell us, but by the way he talked about it, he seems to know.”

 

Sarutobi nodded, “I will have to confront him about that later. Now what rank do you believe he is at?”

 

Kurenai was the first to speak, “Honestly, I believe him to be at a jounin rank. The only thing is we don't know how well he can lead a mission. This is a necessary ability for all jounin's to have.”

 

Genma continued, “I also believe Naruto to be of jounin rank. The thing is he also won't have the raw experience other jounin's have, regarding missions, teamwork, and other things of the like.”

 

Asuma was next, his cigarette pushed to the side of his mouth in order to speak. “I also believe Naruto has the potential to be of the jounin rank. The thing is we simply don't know enough about him.”

 

The Hokage closed his eyes in silent contemplation, interlacing his fingers as well. The three watched him intently, awaiting his answer.

 

The Sandaime sighed heavily, before refocusing his gaze on the three, “I have come to the decision to promote Naruto to chunin rank however…I will assign him an A-ranked mission to learn of his leading capabilities. The ones to accompany him will be…”

 

Locking his gaze between the red-eyed, black haired, jounin and the smoking jounin the Sandaime continued, “Kurenai, Kakashi, and Asuma…any questions?”

 

“So you're saying this eleven year old boy, we don't know much about, is going to be my squad leader in a A-ranked mission?” Kurenai asked, bewilderment etched into her voice, which the Sandaime confirmed with a simple nod of his head.

 

“Yo.” A familiar voice chirped from the window of the office.

 

The Hokage acknowledged his presence, “Kakashi, I see that you were released from the hospital…”

 

“Hai,” The silver-haired jounin answered, “I wasn't that badly wounded. I know for a fact that I underestimated him-“

 

“Which I remember warning you about.” The Sandaime chuckled, making the jounin's ego slightly suffer.

 

“Hai but, Naruto, if I so remember correctly is the Kyuubi container, is he not?” Kakashi asked casually, as though he were talking about the weather. Kurenai, Genma, and Asuma, visibly tensed however.

 

“Hai, does that information bother you?” The Sandaime asked, not only Kakashi, but the others as well.

 

None of them spoke.

 

The Sandaime smiled when no one answered his question, “Good, Naruto has a very tough life, and I would appreciate it if you didn't make it any harder. Just remember this, his smile may fool you, but inside he is hurting in a way that would drive anyone insane. I just wonder how he stays as sane as he is.”

 

“Now, Kakashi,” The Hokage spoke, “You and Kurenai are going to be assigned an A-ranked mission, with Naruto as your squad leader-“

 

“But Hokage-sama-“ Kakashi interjected.

 

“Let me finish, Hatake-san,” The Hokage said, as if we was expecting to be interrupted, “This mission assignment is going to evaluate Naruto's rank further. I will brief you, Kurenai, Asuma, and Naruto in the mission room, regarding your assignment tomorrow. You are all dismissed, expect you Kakashi, I need to speak with you.”

 

Genma, Asuma, and Kurenai, all departed in a cloud of smoke, through `shunshin'. Kakashi stood in place, as the Hokage stared at him with the authority one given the title of Hokage should present.

 

“Kakashi, I understand from the others' reports of the fight, that Naruto has the ability to disable a part of the Sharingan eye.” The Sandaime said firmly, his eyes un-lingering from the jounin present before him.

 

“Hai that is certain. He disabled the part of the Sharingan which allows me to copy ones techniques and I could of sworn something else seemed off as well.”

 

“Does it still function properly now?” The Hokage asked. Kakashi nodded his head in a silent affirmative, while crossing his arms in front of his chest.

 

“I made sure it still worked before leaving the hospital. I used it to memorize my medical report on the side of my bed. Sure enough it's fully functional now.” The Sharingan user explained.

 

The Sandiame fell silent as he thought over the information he had just received. After jostling with the info in his head, he brought his attention back to Kakashi.

 

“I need you to inform Naruto that I need him in my office within the hour.”

 

Kakashi nodded, and was about to leave via the window when the Sandaime spoke again, “Wait.”

 

Kakashi stopped half-way through the window, “Hm?”

 

Sarutobi chuckled as he spoke, “I advise you not to break entry into Naruto's apartment, if he is not there. We had a very unfortunate incident with my last messenger when he tried to open the door.”

 

Kakashi cocked an eyebrow in interest, but then nodded and left.

 

Sarutobi leaned back against his chair, and put his infamous pipe in his mouth. He relaxed in his chair, thinking over today's events when a woman walked in, with her face hidden behind an `oh so terrible'…stack of papers.

 

The Hokage shuddered when the women dropped the giant stack of papers atop his desk, ordering him to get it done. She then left the office to a very depressed looking Hokage, who was only thinking about his retirement at the moment.

 

 

Naruto had just woken up from his short nap, and walked into the living room. He took the small scroll from his pocket, and bit his thumb at the same time. Opening it, he drew the blood from his thumb to streak the scroll words from top to bottom. A small puff of smoke was created, and with it Naruto's notebook, brush, and paint. He set the brush and paint on his desk, because he had no need for them at the moment.

 

He grabbed a pencil from his desk, and sat on his couch. He flipped through many pages of seals and their details, until he reached the one on his wrists. It showed a sketch of the seal along with labels and descriptions. He wrote down that its first trial run was a success. He made sure that the ones on his wrists were an identical match to the sketch in his notes, before wiping the seals off his wrists.

 

He then began to sketch ideas for new seals. It was during his seal studying that he was interrupted by the knocking on his door. Naruto grudgingly sat up, and walked over to the door and opened it.

 

Standing before him was none other then Hatake Kakashi.

 

Naruto looked at him tiredly, showing that he didn't exactly want to be bothered. “What do you want?”

 

Kakashi ignored his signs of rudeness and continued speaking in his familiar drawl. “Hokage-sama requests that you come to his office.”

 

“Again?” Naruto asked in an annoyed manner. He wasn't to keen on getting all these orders, with little to no rest in between.

 

“Hai. Now if would excuse me, I have some important literature to get to.” With that said and done the porno lover disappeared in a puff of smoke.

 

`What is this world coming to?' Naruto thought, as he locked his door and began walking to the Hokage's office.

 

After walking some distance through the streets, he began to feel discomforted by the glares and took to the rooftops. On the rooftops he decided to go at a faster pace, and became a blur to civilian eyes. He reached the Hokage tower in a manner of a few minutes, and walked right past the chunin guards at the base of the building. He walked up the wooden steps, and down a hallway, finally spotting a door being guarded by two chunin.

 

The one on the left side of the door was apparently the supposed `messenger' that he had accidentally blown up, because an angry scowl was directed at him. The chunin beside him had spiky hair, and strip of wrapping across the middle of his face. This chunin's facial expression just showed obvious amusement towards himself and his partner.

 

The spiky-haired chunin on the right was the one to speak to the blonde ninja. “Are you Uzumaki Naruto?”

 

Naruto grinned sheepishly as the glare from the left chunin worsened. “That I am.”

 

“One moment please, the Hokage is in a short meeting with an important figurehead and it should be over any minute now.”

 

“I can wait,” Naruto turned his attention to the chunin on the left side of the door, “Uh, sorry about the explosion thing, it was just a matter of personal security. No hard feelings, right?”

 

The chunin looked at him sternly, before breaking into a warm smile. “No hard feelings, I can tell that it was an accident, though I assure you I won't be testing your security any time soon.”

 

“Heh, heh,” Naruto grinned sheepishly, “Yeah sorry about that, anyway may I know the name to which I have the pleasure of speaking to?”

 

“Well put,” The chunin remarked impressively.

 

“I try.” Naruto smirked.

 

“My name's Izumo, and my partner next to me is Kotetsu.” Izumo said, while gesturing his hand in his partner's direction when introduced. Naruto gave a friendly grin at the two, when the door opened between the them revealing a tall man. His eyes were the pupil-less, pale lavender eyes of a Hyuuga. Naruto recognized him from his childhood as Hyuuga Haishi. From the way he gave Naruto a displeasing frown, it was safe to say he was still had a stick lodged up his ass, a thick one at that.

 

The group stayed silent until Haishi was out of sight. “Well,” Kotetsu spoke up, “I guess you can see the Hokage now.”

 

“Thanks, it was a pleasure meeting you both.” Naruto said, as he walked between them and stepped inside the Hokage's office.

 

Naruto took a quick glance around the office, but it was odd to say he didn't see the Sandaime.

 

“Hey old man!” Naruto called in a rather loud manner.

 

“Over here,” Was the reply Naruto got from a voice concealed behind the mounds of paperwork, stacked atop the Hokage's desk.

 

Naruto casually walked towards him, “Heh, didn't see you there for a moment,” he said rather sheepishly.

 

The Hokage sighed, “Well, paperwork is over flooding me today, it can be cruel like that at times.”

 

“At times? Isn't it always cruel?”

 

“True, true. Anyway down to business since it appears I do not have much time to talk with all this unfinished paperwork to do.”

 

“I was wondering why you would bother me so soon.” Naruto said rather tiredly, he was hungry to. He hadn't the time to eat lunch, and it was now around dinner time.

 

“Yes well, I was hoping you would explain how you accomplished to disable part of Kakashi's Sharingan during the match. It is important that you answer my question honestly.” From the look Naruto was given, he could safely say that he wanted the answer to his question.

 

“Um, well basically I created a seal of my own creation. It is designed to not disable the Sharingan, but fool it. The Sharingan, from what I know, memorizes the opponent's moves, by not memorizing the moves themselves, but rather the chakra patterns. Chakra patterns are waves of the tiniest bit of chakra emitted from the body during any movement. The chakra emitted in these waves is so small that people normally don't notice that their using chakra at all. The waves emitted from movement have unique sizes and lengths that are then memorized by the Sharingan. This therefore memorizes the moves, forms, or jutsu's the opponent uses. This is different from seeing chakra pathways like a Hyuuga, their eyes cannot pick up such a small amount of chakra. The Sharingan eyes can see these chakra patterns and memorize them. However the Sharingan user themselves cannot see these chakra patterns, because the brain does not process that part of the eyesight because it is either non-important or too small of an importance. My seal simply blocks those chakra patterns from the Sharingan, thus the Sharingan user's memorization is fooled, and the user won't know how. This is not all it prevents however, it also stops a Sharingan user from being able to predict my next movements. So actually it disables two parts.” Naruto finished, looking at the Sandaime whose jaw had basically hit the floor.

 

“Naruto, you know how to use seals to that level of understanding?” The Hokage asked, getting a simple nod in reply from the young blonde. Sarutobi fell back in his chair and gave a heavy sigh, while thinking `I'm too old for this shit.'

 

The Hokage brought his gaze upon the young blonde, who he thought was an exact splitting-image of his father. The most un-mistakenly noticeable characteristics were the hair, eyes, and that infamous grin. That along with the other things they had in common is enough for the Sandaime, but no, now they have seal-making in common? This way of thinking brought him to a question.

 

“Naruto, did Jiraiya teach you about seals?”

 

“Um, no. He doesn't even know about my hobby. I'd also appreciate it, if this information doesn't leave this room, because the village and especially the council might go and accuse me of trying to unseal the Kyuubi, or other bull-crap like that.” Naruto said somewhat angrily, knowing the village's train of thought would probably lead them to that conclusion.

 

“I understand…but would you mind if I told Jiraiya?”

 

“No, not at all. The only reason I kept my hobby a secret from him, is so that he wouldn't try and help me with it. I really wanted to learn about seals myself.” Naruto explained.

 

“I see…how long did it take you to create this seal in particular?” The Sandaime asked in curiosity, putting his pipe in his mouth.

 

“Well…approximately two hours.” The Hokage nearly choked on his pipe. The keyword in that sentence is nearly.

 

Once the Hokage managed to regain his bearings, he told Naruto he had too much excitement for one day and would like to close this meeting for some thought.

 

Naruto got up and was about to leave when The Sandaime raised a hand to stop him. “Naruto, hold on a second.”

 

“What now old man?” Naruto asked tiredly, and obviously rudely as well.

 

“I forgot to tell you that you will be leading an A-ranked mission, and you will be the squad's leader. Your squad is composed of two jounin, by the names of Yuhi Kurenai, Sarutobi Asuma, and Hatake Kakashi. You will not get your chunin vest, but you have acquired chunin rank.”

 

“A chunin leading a squad of jounin on an A-rank mission is unheard of.” Naruto commented, but the Hokage shook his head.

 

“On this mission you will be a stand-in-jounin, which means this mission is to further evaluate your rank, and you will have the power of a jounin on this mission. If you show the qualities of a jounin on this mission, then you will be promoted when you return. You will be briefed on your mission tomorrow at 10:00 A.M., by that time I want you and your team in the mission room. That means you have to gather your team, and bring them there on time.” The Hokage finished explaining.

 

“Could you give me their addresses?” Naruto asked, a sheepish grin present on his face.

 

“Right, I was prepared for that,” The Sandaime took a scrap of paper off his desk and handed it to Naruto, who took the paper and looked at its contents.

 

“This gives you both Kurenai's and Kakashi's home addresses, Asuma will be notified by me, since he is my son, so don't worry about him.”

 

The paper listed the addresses of both members of his squad, along with basic directions. “Thanks old man,” he said while shoving the piece of paper in a pocket of his pants. That said and done, he left the tower and headed home.

 

 

A beeping sound filled the room, bouncing off the walls and disrupting the once peaceful silence.

 

Naruto's face scrunched up frustratingly when he tried to turn off the blaring noise blindly. His hand flailed around until he finally hit the alarm, bringing the quiet peace back to his world.

 

Naruto groggily got up, and rubbed his eyes in an attempt to open them. He sat still until his vision began to focus and hopped out of his bed. He checked the time on the accursed alarm, before going to the kitchen to eat. The clock had read 6:01 A.M., which would give him plenty of time to get himself ready, find his team, and meet in the mission room on time.

 

He walked over to his fridge, and looked over the possible items for breakfast. He decided on an apple, toast, and milk. His simple choices were within his budget, which would surely rise once he got some missions done.

 

He dropped two pieces of toast in a cheap toaster he had bought on his shopping trip and began eating the apple, while seated at a small table.

 

Once he had finished eating he got dressed into his black sleeveless shirt and pants, before throwing over his crimson trench coat and standing in front of the mirror. He then tied the Hitai-ate around his neck. He checked over himself, before leaving the apartment room and locking his door securely behind him

 

He left the building before taking out the scrap of paper that was stored in one of his pants pockets. He memorized Yuhi Kurenai's address before shoving it back into his pocket.

 

He walked several blocks until he had reach the given address, ignoring the piercing glares directed at him the entire walk. He rang the doorbell, of the elegant abode. Gardening lined the front of the house, giving it the feeling of peace.

 

The door opened, revealing a thin woman with black hair and crimson eyes.

 

“Kurenai-san, I presume that you were informed about a mission we are supposed to get?” She nodded her head firmly, before speaking.

 

“I didn't guess it would be this early however…” She said, checking the clock behind her that read 8:00A.M., before shutting the door behind her.

 

“Well, I don't want to be late, we need to be at the mission room by 10:00A.M., but before we do we need to get Kakashi-san.” Naruto said, making Kurenai laugh as she began walking. While she laughed, Naruto cocked an eyebrow in confusion and caught up to her before asking, “What's so funny?”

 

Her laughing ceased before she responded, “Your going to get Kakashi, and make it on time? You might as well try to beat a Kage!”

 

“Why's that?” He asked confusingly.

 

“Kakashi's never on time, he about three hours late to everything.” Kurenai she said in an annoyed tone.

 

“Is that so?” Naruto said more to himself, then to Kurenai. “Well! I'm going to make him come on time!” Kurenai winced at the volume of his voice.

 

“You're very loud, you know that right?”

 

“So?” Naruto said in puzzlement. Kurenai frowned and rubbed her temples in frustration. This kid was striking her nerves already.

 

Naruto pulled out the slip of paper and studied it, before pocketing it once again.

 

As they walked Kurenai noticed all the nasty glares she got from people. She was perplexed at first, but then remembered who she was walking with. To despise without an adequate reason, was one of her pet peeves. This made her angry at the villagers for doing such a thing, and respect Naruto a little more for putting up with such treatment.

 

They arrived at the apartment building where Kakashi resided. Naruto checked a watch he had in his pocket noting they had about an hour and a half before the appointed time.

 

They walked to the room number, and Naruto knocked on the door. They waited for a minute before a sleepy spiky haired figure answered the door, opening it slightly.

 

“May I help you?” Kakashi asked tiredly.

 

“Kakashi-san, we need to be at the mission room by 10:00A.M., so get ready and we'll leave together.” Naruto said, watching as the spiky-haired figure nodded and shut the door.

 

Naruto turned around and smiled at Kurenai, “See! Piece of cake!”

 

Kurenai shook her head, “It's not over yet.”

 

Naruto looked at her confusingly, but sat down in the hallway and waited….and waited….and waited…

 

“Gah! It's been forty-five minutes! What's taking him so long?” Naruto got up and knocked on the door rather hard. After waiting for a minute, Naruto grinned mischievously. Kurenai watched as a large grin played across Naruto's face and began to feel uneasy, but decided to just sit back and watch the events play out.

 

“Kakashi-san, if you don't get your ass out here, I'm blowing this door to smithereens and dragging you out here by force!” Naruto yelled at the door, while checking to see if it was locked or not. Of course it was locked. After waiting a minute, Naruto took out a hand-made explosive note, lit it with chakra, attached it to the door, and fled at high speed.

 

Kurenai watched as Naruto placed an explosive note on the door, and fled alongside him. Once they fled a good distance down the hall Kurenai turned to him, “What the hell was that!”

 

Naruto glanced at her infuriated look before replying, “A small explosive note I created, it's destructive force is smaller then the ordinary one.”

 

Kurenai huffed angrily, “That's not what I meant.”

 

Before Kurenai could say anything else, Naruto dashed towards the doorway. He stepped atop the unhinged door, and observed the apartment room.

 

Kakashi was sitting on his couch, directly across from the angry blonde, with eyes the size of dinner plates, “You didn't have to go and do that to my door!”

 

“Kakashi-san,” Naruto began, “I don't tolerate lateness when it can be avoided. I see that you are ready so we will be leaving,” Kakashi didn't budge from his spot, but chose to stare at the boy, “NOW!” Naruto shouted. Kakashi jumped from the spot on his couch and dashed out the apartment door, right past Naruto. Not wanting anymore of the blondes wrath, I mean, he didn't exactly expect the boy to actually blowup his apartment door with an explosive note nonetheless!

 

Kurenai giggled as Kakashi walked up to her, a defeated look plastered on his face. When he stood next to her, she heard him mumble something around the lines of `psychotic blonde'.

 

Naruto walked out of Kakashi's apartment and grinned at the two, “Now that we are all attended for, we should head over to the mission room at the Hokage's tower.”

 

The two nodded dumbly as Naruto walked past them. Kakashi turned to Kurenai, when Naruto was out of hearing distance.

 

“What the hell is this kid's problem? He destroyed my door because he didn't want to be late. This kid…is a complete nut job!” Kakashi said, exasperation clearly defined in his voice.

 

Kurenai snickered, “I think the kid only does crazy stuff when you get him annoyed. So for now on, I would try not to be late.”

 

Not be late? Kakashi took pride in being late. Kakashi to say the least did not like the blonde. He took away his pride in being late, what more could he do to him?

 

Kurenai on the other hand, found herself beginning to respect the blonde more and more. Kakashi's tardiness irritated her to no end, and to see Naruto deal with this problem in such a manner, only made her begin to respect him.

 

“Kurenai-san, Kakashi-san, lets move it!” The blonde called from the bottom of the staircase. The two caught up to him, and began following him towards the Hokage tower.

 

When they reached the Hokage tower they entered and began walking towards the mission room. They found the double doors that led to the mission room. Naruto pushed open both doors with ease and looked around.

 

The mission room had a long table where the Hokage and a chunin sat behind. The chunin seemed familiar to Naruto, but he couldn't remember where he had met him. The chunin had his face buried in scrolls so he couldn't get a good look at his face anyway. A jounin smoking a cigarette, stood by the Hokage as well, Naruto guessed this character was Asuma.

 

The Hokage had the pipe in his mouth when he saw the three walk in. The three walked up to the table, Naruto in the lead.

 

“Hey old man!” Naruto greeted, with a large grin spread across his face.

 

The Sandaime exhaled a puff of smoke, and looked at the other two. Both seemed fixated on the blonde, wondering how he got away with showing such disrespect to the Hokage.

 

“So old man, what's the mission?” Naruto continued.

 

The Hokage opened up the A-rank scroll that lay near the others marked D-rank to B-rank. S-rank missions could only be issued by the Hokage himself, and usually in secret. He looked at the missions going down the row until he found the one he needed, and crossed off the assignment before rolling the scroll back up and placing it back on his desk.

 

The Hokage turned his gaze towards the group as he began to speak, “This mission is being issued by myself. Our scouts have spotted a camp near our border with Rain. The camp seems to be mostly composed of bandits or renegade samurai, but there is also a high possibility of a few missing nins. Your assignment is to exterminate the camp and dispose of the enemies. Naruto, do you by any chance have the Konoha bingo book?”

 

“Hai, I got from ero-sennin a while back. He told me it would be wise to know who my enemies are. I also know some of the missing nins in the other nations.” Naruto explained, Kurenai, Kakashi, and Asuma were wondering the same thing though.

 

Who the hell was ero-sennin?

 

“I see,” The Sandaime said, “well I leave this mission to your team to complete.”

 

It was at this time the chunin sitting next to him decided to speak up, tearing his gaze from the scrolls he was reading to the Hokage without looking at the group. “Hokage-sama are you actually serious about sending a kid to lead an A-ranked mission?”

 

“Iruka, this kid is the same rank as you, and is a stand-in-jounin. I would advise you not to underestimate his abilities.” The Hokage said sternly.

 

“Iruka? Iruka-sensei?” Naruto questioned, looking the chunin up and down. “Wow, I had a hard time recognizing you, I mean I was only at the academy for two weeks before I left!”

 

The chunin turned to face the young blonde, “Naruto? Well, it's been awhile…wait! Naruto you're leading this mission? What the hell kind of alternate dimension was I dropped in?”

 

“Ha, ha, very funny,” Naruto mocked, “I've changed more then you know over the years.”

 

“Actually I do know, “Iruka pointed out, then pointed at his clothing, “no bright orange clothing…that itself is a major improvement.”

 

Naruto grinned sheepishly, before turning to his team. “We are meeting at Konoha's west gate in an hour and a half. You are to grab your provisions and meet me there. Kakashi-san, you are to be there on time, otherwise I shoving an explosive note up your ass, is that clear?”

 

Kakashi nodded his head, while giving out a defeated sigh. One thing he didn't want to do is enrage the blonde, seeing as he might do what he said. The previous event, made him not doubt his words.

 

Before Naruto left the mission room Iruka called him, “Yeah?”

 

“Have you visited Hinata yet?” Iruka asked.

 

Naruto shook his head sadly, “Not yet, but I plan to wait until I can bypass her father. If I were to see her now, it might ruin my plans that I have created beforehand. Don't worry, I plan to in time.”

 

“I'm just making sure, because she does miss you.”

 

“I know, she is my friend after all.”

 

Naruto left the mission room, his team split apart after leaving the Hokage tower. Naruto went to his apartment and sealed many of his weapons and necessities in scrolls. He added a little more weight to his seals, while pocketing the various scrolls. This included the scroll with his seal-making equipment. After he had gathered his resources, he left towards the west gate, intent on leading a successful A-ranked mission.