Part 1 of the wave Arch is now up.
As for pairing: Tayuya is winning in a landslide with 1 Vote! The others are all triling by one vote and it's beginning to look like this battle was won the moment it started.
Seriously, you have until I post the third chapter to vote for who you want to be paired with Naruto, if Tayuya is the only one with a vote then that's the end of it. One other thing that I didn't put in chapter one: I don't like Sakura. I wont be bashing on her in this story like I have done in others, but I will not be pairing her with anyone, but Sasuke.
Chapter two: The trip to wave
Naruto had to focus with all his might to keep the Vector holding the cat in the air in front of him from killing the ever annoying little fuzzball. His teammates had not questioned him about the cat floating infront of him since he had explained away his vectors as a bloodline that was a rarity all over the world called 'Telekinesis'. Humans are gullible and will believe anything within reason, Itachi had told him. He banked on that fact when he remembered reading about the psychic ability to move things with one's mind.
For a week after his explanation Sasuke just glared at him, finally having found the source for all the strange, invisible whaps to the head he had recieved.
When they finally reached the tower and Naruto handed that cat back to the fat wife of the Daimyo she didn't seem at all surprised to find her cat just floating into her arms.
"Oh thank you very much," she said to them while squeezing her cat to death.
After the lady paid and left The Third began listing other things that the green gennin could do until...
"No," Naruto said calmly. The adults and the rest of Team Seven just blinked before Sakura bopped Naruto on the head.
"You baka! You don't just tell the Hokage 'No'! Show some respect!" She didn't quite yell at him. Naruto just rubbed his head before speaking.
"OK! I respectfully decline your requests," he said and took a step away from Sakura incase she decided to bop him again. She didn't, but Kakashi did.
"Ow! Fucking Hell! Is this Beat-The-Blonde-Kid Day or something?!"
Everyone ignored him as Kakashi spoke to the Sandaime, "Forgive my subordinate, Sandaime-sama. He had one too many bowls of Sweet Ramen this morning."
Too everyone's surprise the reply from the aged Hokage was, "No need for forgiveness, Kakashi. I was waiting for one of the teams to break under the D-ranked missions. I had actually thought it would be the Yamanaka girl, but Naruto was my second choice." Under the table, Sarutobi passed Iruka a wad of cash and a note saying 'Damn Your Student Personality Knowledge.'
"OK, the only C-class mission we have is an escort mission," Iruka explained, but no one was really listening. Kakashi was reading his book, Naruto was grinning from ear to ear and plotting out how he was going to save a beautiful Diclonius princess and when she was awed by his powerful skill she would thank him with the treasure of the kingdom and her hand in marriage( It keeps going, but let's stop here), and Sakura and Sasuke were stunned that Naruto of all people actually got them a higher ranked mission.
When they finally started listening again, it was because Tazuna, an old man in a straw hat and that smelled like booze, came in and insulted the gennin. Surprizingly, when he insulted their skills it was not Naruto or Sakura that acted in anger. The old man found a kunai sticking between his toes in his left sandle and Sasuke's arm was still at the point from where he let fly the throwing knife.
"Hmm... Well, even if my students are ill equipped for anything we come across I am a jounin, if they can't take care of it I most likely can, but I have faith in my students," Kakashi said to the old man who was now trying unsuccessfully to pull the kunai out of his sandle. To his students he ordered them to prepare for a months journey to the Land of Waves.
---- About Six hours later on the road To Wave----+
Naruto was ruffling through his pack, looking for one thing or another, when he noticed the puddle. It was too dry of late to have a puddle, so only one conclusion came to mind. Somebody must've really had to go...
His sensei had come to a completely different conclusion upon seeing the puddle and prepared a seal-less Kawarimi, assured that as the Highest chakra emitter of the group he would be seen as the biggest threat and they would use the element of surprise to take him out before he could do any damage to them or hinder their assault.
Naruto stopped breathing through his nose as they passed, not wanting to smell the scent of what he thought the puddle actually was.
His assumption was proven wrong when, after about ten yards away from the puddle, two men exploded out of it. They acted almost too quickly to follow, wrapping the bladed chain attached to both men's gauntlets around Kakashi and pulling hard on it, ripping him to pieces or so it would seem.
Naruto may have missed the ninja in the puddle, but he clearly saw Kakashi use Kawarimi to get away from the deadly attack.
"One down," The two men said together before charging at Naruto. When they came within the range of his Vectors, Naruto prepared to strike with lethal force, focusing his Vectors on severing their lower halves from the torso, but had to call them back to him when Sasuke got in his line of fire.
Naruto almost growled, but instead decided to yell at Sasuke, "You dumbass! You got in my way, Baka!"
Sasuke ignored him as he proceeded to beat the hell out of the twin ninja. Eventually they knocked him aside and went for Tazuna and Sakura who was guarding him. Both Naruto and Sasuke dashed into their path, blocking their pink haired teammate and the client from harm.
Before two nin could even get within ten feet, they were quite suddenly caught in a headlock by Team Seven's silver haired sensei.
"The three of you did very well," Kakashi said somewhat appraisingly. As he moved to tie up the two nin he noticed the sharpened tips of the gauntlet fingers on the ground. One of the benefits of having vectors. A weapon with a blade that will never become dull. He remembered what Itachi had told him once.
"Now then, would you care to explain to us why you lied about this mission, Tazuna-san?" Kakashi faced the highly persperating bridge builder.
After a lengthy explanation, and a pitiful pitty play, Kakashi decided to leave it up to his students.
"Why even bother asking?" Naruto said arms crossed over his chest, "This is the kind of shit I've been lookin' forward to since I heard Sensei's stories."
"I'm with the dobe," Sasuke said simply. Sakura nodded as well.
"Well, I guess it's your lucky day, Tazuna-san. C'mon, it should take another day or so to reach Wave Country," Kakashi stated as he buried his nose in his porno once more.
---- Roughly eighteen hours later ----+
"HIT THE DECK!" Kakashi yelled, pulling Tazuna to the ground with him. Sasuke and Sakura followed suit, but Naruto was just confused... Until he turned around. Heading directly at him at deadly velocity was a giant cleaver, spining at 'Too-Fucking-Many' RPM's. Luckily though, Naruto's vectors acted on instinct, knocking the blade off target and into a tree to the left of him.
"Holy Shit!" Naruto shouted staring at the blade. Suddenly a man landed on the handle of it and started chucling maniacally.
"You've got some interesting brats... Copy Cat Kakashi," the man's voice drifted down to the team. He was about to continue on, but a certain blonde beat him.
"Hey Asshole! Watch where you're throwing that butter knife! I almost got hit!" Naruto was waving his fist in the air at the ex-Mist nin. Zabuza, Kakashi, Sakura, Sasuke, Tazuna, and even Haku, hiding in the distance to observe the battle, sweat dropped.
"Yes, well... Moving on. What can we do for you, Zabuza Momochi," Kakashi said. Another chuckle was heard and, faster than the gennin could track, he appeared on top of a nearby lake with his sword strapped to his back.
"So you know about me? I'm flattered. Now if you'll just kindly hand over the old man I'll let you leave here alive."
"No can do," Kakashi said and lifted his hitai-ate, "I've been assigned to protect him."
"Oh, You flatter me more, Kakashi, brining out your Sharingan so early in the fight," that caught Sasuke's attention, but he knew that now was not the best time to question it.
Naruto's instincts flared as the killing intent rose around them. When the fog rolled in he had to concentrate very hard to keep his Vectors from ripping his team apart. They were twitchin' 'n ichtin' to do some damage. He was so focused on keeping his Vectors in check that he didn't even register the small fight between the two jounin until he heard Kakashi shouting for them to get away.
He took a second to take in his surroundings and then just grinned.
"No way, Scarecrow!" He said loudly, "If we leave you behind that makes us less than trash, right guys?" The other members of team seven nodded.
Zabuza just smirked as he made a clone to go after the genin. Immagine his surprise when it suddenly melted back into water before it could even reach the shore. He was even more greatly surprised when he felt multiple objects bite into his arm as if they were shot out of a cannon. He cursed and retracted his hand from the water prison.
Forgetting about Kakashi for a moment he made a mad dash at the grinning blonde gennin. Kakashi appeared before him and pressed his kunai against the blade of Zabuza's sword.
"I am your opponent, Zabuza," he said in a dark tone to the Demon of the Hidden Mist.
Naruto and his teammates watched in amazement as Kakashi.
"Uchiha," Naruto said in a tone more serious than either Sasuke or Sakura had heard him before, "Watch this fight. Don't look away if it kills you. You will learn what a true master of the Sharingan can do," he paused as two dragons of water clashed together, "He does not simply copy the jutsu he sees. He takes them and trains with them, practices and practices until he can use them better than the one he took the technique from. If you think strength merely comes from having special eyes then you are doomed to fail your goal. You will never kill Itachi." Finally Kakashi used a large blast of water to disable Zabuza and the battle was quite obviously over.
Unfortunately, before Naruto could see the actual end of Zabuza's life he felt a prick in his neck and fell over unconscious.
While his teammates and sensei fretted over him, the nin who knocked him out quickly gathered up Zabuza and beat a retreat into the trees.
---- Some time later at Tazuna's house ----+
Naruto slowly came into consciousness and saw two black as coal eyes.
"RAAAPE!!"
Sasuke jumped so high he nearly drove his skull through the ceiling. Sakura, Kakashi, Tazuna, and everyone else within earshot came running to see what the ruckus was about.
Immagine their surprise when they came into the room to see a dent in the ceiling, Sasuke sporting a rather large bump on his head, and Naruto trying to mold himself into a corner of the room to stay as far away from Sasuke as possible. Kakashi took in the sight and sighed. This would probably be an interesting explanation.
"OK, what happened?"
"That fucker was trying to molest me!" Naruto almost shouted.
"I was not, Dumbass! You started moaning in your sleep!"
"So you tried to kiss me!?"
"No! I thought you were trying to say something so I got closer to listen, you moron!"
"OK, OK. Settle down you two. Naruto I don't think Sasuke was really trying to molest you," Kakashi said trying to put an end to this nonsense.
"Yeah... well... I still don't trust him. I ain't sharing a room with him," Naruto said and grabbed all of his things and hurriedly found another room to use.
"Um, Naruto," Kakashi tapped his students shoulder as he began to lay out his futon, "This is the room I'm using."
"Well, I'm using it now. Go share a room with the Ero-Uchiha, show him your book," and he used his vectors to forcibly remove his sensei from the room, throwing all the copies of Icha Icha he found all over the room out of the room with him.
Later that night at dinner Naruto watched Sasuke with a cautious eye, Sakura and Sasuke both glared at Naruto for his accusations, and the rest of them tried to ignore the tense atmosphere. The kid, Inari, had prepared a really angsty speach for them earlier, but now he didn't really feel like giving it, he just didn't feel like the message would get through to the rookie ninja.
---- The next day ----+
The three students stood infront of their teacher, who Naruto realized about fiveminutes ago was on crutches, waiting for him to instruct them on... something. For thirty minutes they just stood their, waiting for him to say or do something besides read that stupid little book of his.
"WOULD YOU DO SOMETHING ALREADY!!" Naruto finally yelled at his sensei.
Kakashi finally put his book away and looked at his students. "Today we will learn how to climb trees."
Sasuke was just about to make a complaint about that not being something to help them grow stronger, but Naruto spoke first, "Aw, c'mon! That is too damn easy! Give us something hard. Like climbin' a mountain with a boulders roped to each of our limbs. Make us use our chakra to juggle kunai without getting cut. Have us run from here to Wind country and back before dinner three times a day. Anything but tree climbin'."
"Hmm, but this is a jounin level technique to practice chakra control."
"Jounin level my ass! Maybe it's jounin level for Sasuke, but it's still an easy technique! Give me a real challenge!"
Sasuke growled at him and Sakura bopped Naruto on the head. Just as she was about to reprimand him verbally for insulting Sasuke she was cut off by him whacking her on the head in return.
"Don't like it, do ya?!" he said to her almost growling, "Well neither do I, so knock it the fuck off!"
"Well, anyways, I wont be making any changes to the training regiment so get busy climbing these trees with out your hands," Kakashi said then walked off.
Naruto flipped him off as he walked away then began running up and down one of the trees infront of him, using his chakra to stick to it. The other two saw how he did it and began practicing themselves.
Later that day found the three ninja in training eating dinner again. This time Inari decided to follow through with his angsty speech. When it was done only two people didn't lookat him with a hint of sadness for him. They were Kakashi, who was reading his book and Naruto who was giving him a flat look.
"You done now? I'm hungry and it's hard to eat with people whining at you about how bad their life has been," He then picked up a plate, "And by the way I can and will stop Gatou. I'll kill him if I have to and I don't care about what some snot nose kid who hasn't even begun to see the darker side of the world says about it being hopeless. So shut up, sit down, eat your foot and when you're full give your mom a hug for makin' the food and give your gramps a hug for trying help you miserable little village and go to bed... maybe it'll help you feel better." And then Naruto put food on the plate and set it down in front of the kid.
"I'm goin' to be out training. If I don't come back don't worry," Naruto said as he headed to the door. He ignored the sniffles comin' from the kid he had yelled at. He supposed in another situation he might feel sorry for the kid, might even encourage him. But right now he just saw the kid as a whiny little shit who didn't know the meaning of pain.
Naruto shook away the darker memories of his past and moved deeper into the forest train, hoping to work himself to the point he was too tired to even think.
---- End Chapter two----+
A/N: If you're one of my avid readers, you'll notice that I'm updating my stories in rapid succession this fine evening. It's because you guys deserve it for waiting so long. Next up is something that I'll decide upon.
