Chapter 0: Intro
Attention: To all readers: I wont say these things again in later Chapters, so please read them carefully.
1.: This is NOT going to be Canon. There will be things that happen (allmost) like they did in Canon, but many to most things wont. Thats intentional, if you want a Canon-Naruto, go read the Manga! ;)
2.: I will never, not ever, reveal anything about the further Story or Character development due the answers to the reviews. You`ll have to READ the Chapters to see whats next.
3.: This is NOT mainly an Action (Sex) Story like most Naruto Fics I found. Deal with it, this is the way I write. So there wont be Bold Jutsus en masse or too many very detailed battles (as in every punch, thrust etc is described) or explicitly described Sex-Scenes.....
4.: The upper 3 are to "warn" readers, this one is a request: If you review (and I sincerely hope you will), please be as precise and polite as possible. I`m allways grateful for GOOD advice how to make my writing better, but I cant stand things alà "Dude, your Naruto is so "enter Fanboydomerant here" and it should be "enter different Fanboyrant here" instead. Thanks.
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Thanks for your attention, and may you enjoy my little Fic!
It was a bad day. Of that he was certain.
Not only did it pour, no, the soaked Street also made sad noises to accompany his every step, letting his gait seem tired and hopeless. Well, MORE tired and hopeless than it actually was, that is.
While his hair dripped water into his eyes, again, he thought back at how he had come to be in the current situation. As it is often the case, all had started out completely ordinary.......
Zabuza walked down one of the smaller streets of Kirigakure. He wore both his usual intimidating scowl and his even more intimidating sword, so people tended to avoid his path as fast and wide as possible.
After all he WAS the „Demon of the Mist", and though his Missing Nin Days were behind him, his reputation was still far less than sterling.
After seeing a slight movement out of the corner of his left eye, he turned around, brandishing his usual crazed „You wanna die" impression, adding a small amount of killing intent only to realize that he was trying to intimidate a honest to god Messenger Hawk, damn, he really needed to work on not spinning off mentally that often. Ah well.....
He gripped the surprised bird, removed the message scroll and threw it, just a BIT to hard, up into the air. The struggles of the bird to stay airborne were completely lost to Zabuza however, as his mind focused on the message.
It read: „Come to my office immediately, a situation worthy of your attendance has arisen.
The Mizukage".
Great, he rejoiced, finally some more action. After his triumphant return to the village of the Hidden Mist, Kakashi Hatake bound behind him, he had received many praises for practically giving Kirigakure access to all but the most secret Jutsu Konoha had had, + many other Ninjutsu Kakashi had copied. But sadly that also meant, if he wanted to stay in good graces with the village, and after that many years on the run he WANTED, he had to stay here until a „fitting" Mission for a Jonin of his fame and power arose. Which had happened exactly TWICE in the last 3 years!
He hadn't had a challenging fight (or even a good spar if you asked him) for more than a year, and it was starting to show in his mood. While he was never pleasurable to be around, not being able to quench his thirst for battle made him FAR more foulmooded than was good for him or his surroundings..
So he used a small, one-handed Jutsu to instantly teleport to the front door of the Mizukages house. Rightening his sword (he really had to do something about its mass, it allways had to be rightened after such a Jutsu) he knocked and entered.
The room leading to the Kages office was empty, but he didn`t pay much attention to it. Instead he confidently strode through the door, his eyes finding the Mizukage instantly. He bowed as it was proper, then waited.
„Well Zabuza", The Mizukage began,"As you might or might not have noticed we are alone here. That and the fact I sent a Hawk instead of an ANBU should tell you how strict secrecy has to be on everything I`m gonna tell you right now." With a questioning raise of his left brow he ended his little speech.
Zabuza merely nodded.
„Good then. We finally made a Breakthrough with Kakashi He told us everything he was able to hide before, including some VERY interesting Jutsu, but thats not the point. You remember the catastrophe with the Kyuubi that hit Konoha about 15 Years ago?" The old, seemingly frail, man asked.
„Of course" answered Zabuza. „Did we finally find out how they managed to beat it?"
„Indeed we did", the Mizukage replied"The late 4th Hokage managed to use an ancient Sealing Jutsu to put the most powerful Demon ever known into a newborn child." With a smirk the old man let that sink in.
That even got an emotional outburst from Zabuza. „What", The Demon of the Mist allmost thundered, "How could a Mortal contain so much power?"
„It cant" the Kage replied, „One day it will break through the seal. But your question doesn`t go far enough. You should ask how can we use it to our advantage. It happens to be that the boy was rather maltreated by the Village. Albeit they allowed him to become a Ninja, he was being avoided or worse, attacked by other Villagers. He was removed from Hatake Kakashis Team due to some incidents shortly before you beat the "Copy-Nin" and his Team and assigned to „Guard" Duty in a Team that never leaves Fire Country. Also since the Death of the 3rd and the Destruction Orochimaru wreaked upon Konohas Center, he was imprisoned for allmost 4 months because they suspected him of treason. After all that he cant hold much love for his village in his heart, or do you think otherwise?"
The Mizukages smile was allmost genuine. Allmost.
It hadn`t been much of a fight against Kakashi, mainly due to his team being everything BUT a team. Zabuza had allways wondered why though. Kakashi WAS after all an Elite Jounin and so it could be expected from him to take measures to make his Genin a well oiled Machine of cooperation. But it had been otherwise. Once he had attacked, 2 members froze (not that the pinkhaired girl had him worried the slightest bit, but the Uchiha could at least have been fun). The third member had been a Hyuga, her damned Eyes able to follow him at least partially, but a Mizu-Bunshin had taken care of that too. Sadly he was unable to carry more than Kakashi at once, at least with the speed he needed and Haku being on another Mission for Gatou, so of course he went for Kakashi, as he made it possible to deliver uncounted Jutsu AND a Sharingan.
He left the others alive though, as they neither posed a challenge, nor Zabuza wanted to prevent them from becoming one in the future.
Zabuza imitated his Superior, only that his smile WAS genuine. And full of mad Bloodlust.
„The prison of the Kyuubi? Where is he and when will I start?" he asked, killing intent and glee radiating off him like heat from a candle.
„Right now, the Demon-Vessel, by the way his name is Naruto Uzomaki, is close to the border of Fire and Sand. he`s accompanied by another Genin and their Chunin „Leader" to do Guard Duty. Seeing that Fire and Sand are close allies after the stunt Orochimaru pulled with the fake Kazekage 3 years ago, that is further proof of how bad they think of him......" The Mizukage seemed to trail off.
„The Map is in the next room. Go immediately!" He added, shortly refocussing on his subordinate.
Which Zabuza did. With more energy than he had done anything for the better time of a year.
He slowly approached the burned remains of a small forest, soaked wet due to the downpour the Ash mixed with the mud to produce blackish mud. Great, not only mud, really staining mud to boot!
He scanned the surroundings. Nothing. No Survivors or even recognizable remains of Buildings or corpses.
Of course it would have been too much to expect to find an Inn for once, wouldn't it?
He decided to keep on walking until he at least found a bit of shelter from the rain, enough time for sleep later.
Smalch, smalch smlurp he trodded through the mud, his thoughts again drifting back to the times all this had started.
It had been far too easy to find the team this Uzumaki was with. The followed a small river along the boarder-forest, a thing Zabuza would have severely beaten any Mist-Nin for. Zabuza had a Mizu Bunshin trail them for a day without anyone noticing and found out that the Mizukages conclusions had, as it seemed, been to optimistic of all things! The boy was treated like a better carrier, not like a fellow Ninja. Such a thing would never have happened in Kirigakure. They would either have killed the brat or given him access to everything he needed to achieve his potential. Either remove the threat or risk everything by using that unimaginable power. Kirigakure was never halfhearted.
At least that way he could see that the brat seemed desperate to make the girl, the other Genin, like him, so that one would have to stay alive, for the sake of the brats good will.
The three were just returning from another lap of dangerously boring patrol duty when Zabuza chose to strike. The air was just wet enough for his favorite technique, so he sent a Mizubunshin to make some noise shortly after he had raised the fog. The completely surprised „Ninja" (bah, as if they deserved that title....) tried to dispel it as if it was a Genjutsu, incompetent idiots. The first thing they saw from him was the humongous Blade protruding from the neck of their "leader", a lanky man around 20, followed by a fast kick that sent the brownhaired girl flying against a tree.
Then Zabuza rammed his sword into the ground, put his right ellbow on it and said: „Hey! I thought you might want to see a REAL Ninja for once." While doing so he locked eyes with the kid, his piercing, but for now Killing-intent-less gaze boring into the bright blue eyes of the blonde.
Naruto just gazed flabbergasted at the huge, muscled man that had just slaughtered a Chunin as effortlessly as he would have.., would have..., no, Naruto couldn´t even have killed a fly with that little effort. And a small but clearly audible voice inside him told him how incredibly COOL the move had been. He tried to suppress it, as he had been teached, but he had more pressing matters to deal with now......
At least Tenten was still alive, only unconscious as far as he could see.
„Ah, em, well...." he staggered, but then his „inner Voice" took over, „That was SO cool, how did you do that? The Fog wasn`t a Genjutsu,w as it? And...." He went silent when the figure scratched himself at his bare breast, only now taking in his looks (except the sword, noone could miss THAT).
The Stranger was tall, a good head above Kakashi, and very well muscled, as evidently shown by his bare breast. He wore some kind of Armwarmer-like Things, only made of something like very dark and bigscaled fishhide, black pants and Boots as well as a .... a Kirigakure Hitai-ate!!
„Ah, eh, you´re not gonna kill me, are you?" were the only words that came to his mind.
Zabuza sighed. „No kid, I wont. We Nins from Kirigakure aren't as indiscriminately bloodthirsty as you were led to believe. Don`t piss me off and I wont even hurt, not to mention kill, you. Name`s Zabuza Momoshi, you might have heard of me? No? Well then they treated you worse than we thought...."
„I am Naruto Uzomaki, and what do you mean „worse than we thought?" Naruto blurted out.
„Well, I`m here to make you an offer,boy. Come with me. Join Kirigakure. WE wont hesitate to give you all the Training and education you need to become a REAL Ninja, develop your Power as well as Information on how to harness the Kyubiis." At the panicked glare of the Spiky-haired kid he added: „Nono, don`t panic. As I said, we know what potential lies in your „Guest". Only that he didn`t attack our village, so we don`t harbor ANY bad feelings against you. You`ll have a good life, Training and the prospect of power, if you choose wisely now. So, what`s your Answer?" At saying this, the Demon of the Mist emitted slight Killing intent, just to be sure....
After about 2 minutes of contemplation, full of the memories of Villagers harassing him, Teachers denying him Training, everyone telling him he was Evil Incarnate and the general misery of his life, Narutos face became stern. He looked one last time towards Tenten, then he looked Zabuza straight into the eye and said: „It can`t be worse, but very well much better than in Konoha. I`ll go with you." Then his honest and stern expression vanished and he added: „Plus your sword is way cooler than any weapon I`ve ever seen so far", with one of his rare signature smiles.
Zabuza smiled his special little smile as they ran out of the small forest and into the mist.............