The Namikage

Chapter 2: A Plan And Accomplice

by DeathGodSlayer

"So where are we going?" Both Haku and the new blond boy, Naruto spoke in exact unison. The same question, spoken every second like a couple of parrots mimicking each other.

Zabuza was long past growing frustrated, every fibre of his body told him to just drop the two kids off somewhere and be on his own way, failing that take his big sword and just shut both of their mouths permanently. But Zabuza knew not to give into this temptation, Haku's Kekkei Genkai and natural prowess and this blond boy, as mysterious as he was, Zabuza felt that it would be better to keep Naruto near him.

"So are we returning to your village, Zabuza?" Naruto asked, noting the headband on the man's head, despite the large gash through it.

"No. We are getting away from it. And to answer your previous question, we are going into the forest and building a safe house. Why, is there a problem with that?" Zabuza glared down at the blond boy angrily.

The boy shrugged his shoulders lazily, apparently not getting the message. "No, I just thought you were going to do something bigger than build a safehouse."

"And what is it you want to do?" Zabuza couldn't believe he let himself ask that question.

"Me? One day I'm going to build a Hidden Village of my own. You and Haku are welcome to come visit anytime you want though." Naruto grinned, his new dream was even bigger than becoming Hokage, something he couldn't do anymore. So he would build his own village and become the FIRST Kage of it, instead of being the fifth of Konoha.

Zabuza scoffed loudly. "That is a stupid dream, don't get your hopes up. You'll be working for me until the day you die."

"Then why not build a village of your own? That's gotta be better than some crummy old safehouse."

Zabuza's mind clicked, an idea forming in his head. Why not build his own village? 'Once a ninja is allied with a village, even if they defected from another village, they are no longer classed as missing-nin and all hunters are called off. And becoming a Kage would only raise the protection around myself.' Zabuza smirked under his bandage mask, plans and opportunities forming in his head, he zoned out from everything else in the world, focusing solely on the idea creating in his mind. 'I would need a large amount of land, preferably in a country without an existing defence system. I would also need resources, a vast amount of resources, something I obviously lack at the moment.'

"Hey Zabuza. I'm hungry. Can you get us some food?" Naruto asked the man, he had been staring blankly at the road ahead for a while now.

"Yes." Zabuza replied absently mindedly, concurring with Naruto's suggest. 'I would need the resource of food.'

"Here. Eat" Zabuza ordered, tossing the cooked fish towards Naruto and Haku, he began devouring the caught meal immediately. He couldn't believe he so easily agreed to hunt their food for them. Better yet, when did he agree to get them food?

Picking up a fish for himself, he undid the bandages around his lower face, dropping so they hung loosely around his neck, Zabuza took a re large chunk of the fish out with his shark teeth. Munching on it quietly, he turned to see the little blond staring at him curiously. "What?" Tiny chunks of fish spluttered from his mouth.

"Nothing, just your teeth are kinda cool." Naruto mumbled quietly, biting back into his own fish again.

Zabuza went unresponsive to his comment, inside his head his mind was furiously at work. Could he really create a village of his own? Would he be able to make it a stable place to live? As soon as the village goes under the Hunter-nin would be able to attack and take him down. He would have to make sure that he could make the village prosperous.

But to do that he would need an unstable land, to show that his village brought it together? "But where..." Zabuza mumbled aloud. "Where is an unstable bit of land which I can use to build a village?"

"I would recommend Nami no Kuni." Zabuza's eyes widened in alarm, he wasn't expecting an answer, he quickly took hold of his blade and spun around, pointing the tip in the direction of the noise. A pair of feet were visible, however the rest of the body was hidden the the shadows of the tree. "As expected of the Demon of the Hidden Mist." The person chuckled unfazed by the threat of Zabuza's massive blade.

"Who are you boy?" Zabuza gritted out, the voice was obviously not deep enough to be a full grown man.

The feet leisurely moved out of the darkness. A boy, older than Haku smiled at Zabuza. His hair was black and spiky, with all the bangs save one were pushed out of his face, the remaining black bang dangling on the bridge of his nose. His eyes were black in colour, with a visible scar running down his left eye, with another scar just below it on his cheek. His shirt was a grey-black and fit tightly around his chest, with the right sleeve being completely removed and the left sleeve being cut around the top of the shoulder, revealing a mesh under shirt underneath, the sleeve a lot looser than the rest of the shirt with a green fabric running around the bottom of the sleeve. On his hands were black gloves with a same green fabric pattern going around the wrists of the gloves. He wore black, very baggy pants, again with a green elastic belt around his waist and green patterns going along the fabric, the baggy pants were tucked into near knee high grey boots. With two accessories on his waist, one was a ninja tool bag on his left hip as opposed to being at the back and a thin gold chain hanging loosely around his leg. On his back was the most peculiar weapon Zabuza has ever seen in appearance, it was a full blade, but shaped like an archer's bow, with two handles on the straight edge and teeth like ridges along the curving edge, with a dent in the centre of the curve, going back in, making it as if the blade had a similar function as the semicircle on his own blade. The blade was hung on the boy's back by a black string.

Rummaging through his ninja bag, the boy brought out a headband, throwing at Zabuza's feet. Zabuza flipped it over so he could see it's origin. A high table design with curved legs outwards, three lines jutting from the top in different directions. "You're from Haigakure. That's all the way in Kazen no Kuni. Who are you?"

"My name is Nokoribi Kasō. And I WAS from Haigakure." The boy identified himself, smirking, he leaned against the tree he had been previously standing behind.

"Wait, Kasō? As in the Kasō Clan? As in the ruling family of Haigakure, Kasō?" Zabuza scoffed disbelievingly. "There's no way a Kasō clan member would be so far away from Haigakure, the Kasō Clan forbids it."

Nokoribi nodded. "I was away on a mission just on the border of Kazen no Kuni. While I was away the villagers and shinobi performed a coup d'etat and overthrew my father and killed him, as well as my older brother, younger sister and my mother. So I burnt the village to the ground and their 'new leaders' along with it." The boy explained, strolling leisurely to the fire and sat down next to it, taking a fish from the fire. "Itadakimasu." He waved his free hand at Zabuza before taking a bite of the fish, nodding in a greeting manner at the blond boy staring at him wide eyed.

"So you cut all ties from your home and destroyed your own village. I'm quite impressed." Zabuza spoke an in equally impressed tone.

"It wasn't my home when I returned." Nokoribi spoke quietly, taking another bite of the fish.

"So why did they do a coo detat?" The blond boy next to him asked, looking at him with wide blue eyes.

"Coup d'etat." The black haired boy corrected. "They believed that the Kasō Clan were only working to benefit themselves. Complete nonsense really. My Great Grandfather battled the Yonbi in order to get it out of the volcano where the village is located, losing his life in the process. My grandfather spent decades building the village inside the Yonbi's previous lair, building it into a habitual environment for humans to live in. My father spent years making the economy and village prosperous, only working for ourselves. Everything my family has done has been for them, and this is how they repay us. With hate and death." The black haired boy scoffed insultingly, taking the final bite of his fish stick.

'He's like me...' Naruto stared at the black haired boy. 'All alone, and hated.'

"Anyway, I intend to start again as my great gramps did, somewhere near the sea, I've never seen it before. So I'm offering my help in your plan, Zabuza." He spoke with his mouth still half full from the last bite of fish.

"And why should I accept?" Zabuza asked quizzically, grasping the handle of his sword tighter, he didn't need anymore kids following him around.

"Because my father taught me and my older brother everything there is that is needed to know about running a village. He hoped that my big brother would lead the village when he retired, but he wanted me to be prepared as well in case my brother wasn't able. Plus, in order to create a village you need shinobi, both with and without extraordinary abilities. Konohagakure has the Byakugan and Sharingan, Iwagakure has Blast Release, Kirigakure has The Seven Swordsman and Boil Release, Kumogakure has Storm Release and Sunagakure has Scorch Release and the Iron Sand ability. You need someone like me." Nokoribi smirked, his offer was hard to decline, even for someone like Zabuza.

"Before I agree, you must tell me why you suggested Nami." Zabuza replied strongly, this kid might actually have some decent ideas considering how he was raised.

Nokoribi smirked, lifting up one finger. "One, Nami no Kuni is a small country, practically just one big island. The country has no organise defense regiment, everyone on our continent relies on either Shinobi or Samurai, Nami has neither. If you made the request of constructing a village to the Daimyo, it will be hard for him to decline."

He then lifted up a second finger alongside his first. "Two, Nami no Kuni has gone under some 'new management' if you will recently. He's a menace to the single village in the country, cutting off all their resources and destroying their morale by brutally killing their hero of the village. You get rid of him, and all the villagers will be so grateful they will do anything you ask, especially if you say you want to strengthen and protect their village."

"But that doesn't dodge the matter of resources. Nami no Kuni is poor, even the Daimyo has little money. Do you know how much will be needed to bring the country out of poverty."

Nokoribi's smile only grew. Holding up two new fingers. "A man from the village, Tazuna has begun building a bridge that will connect the country to the main land, providing a boost in the economy. And second, the man terrorizing Nami no Kuni is Gatō."

"Of the Gatō Corporation?" Zabuza sounded surprised.

The black haired boy only nodded. "The very same. Gatō, the richest man in the world. And didn't I say earlier that my plan is to kill him."

An evil smirk grew on Zabuza's own face. "You aim to kill him and steal all his money. And then using the godly sum, build the foundations of the village, get food and equipment for the village, and use the already existing manpower of the villagers, who will be so overly grateful to you. You have really thought this through."

"So do you intend to kill me now, Zabuza," Nokoribi's smirked faded, reaching for his blade as he stood up. "And take my plan for your own."

"No, that won't be necessary. I think you will do well in my new village." Zabuza smirked, sticking his blade back in the ground. "It might me good to have a round the clock babysitter for these two until the village is complete."

Naruto bounced around the small opening where Zabuza had lead him, excitement and anticipation. "I can't wait until we make our own village, then I can be the leader of a whole village myself!"

"Shut up!" Zabuza yelled, scaring the boy into calming down. "There's no way I would let you rule the village. You are far too young and not nearly strong enough. Your training begins now!"

"My training!" Naruto's excitement grew again, he had never had a personal trainer for anything. But he looked around curiously. "Wait a minute, shouldn't we wait for Haku."

"Haku has completed the basic training and is now able to learn Jutsu." Zabuza explained calmly.

"Cool! So all I got to do is ace this training and I can learn some Jutsu!" The excitement grew in the younger blond even further.

'This is going to be torture for me.' Zabuza mentally sighed. "I have only one rule for my training." His words calmed the blond boy down again, who looked back in interest. "If you can't keep up, lay down and die." Zabuza glared angrily, the boy jumped back in shock.

Reaching for his massive blade Zabuza carved a straight line through the earth at his feet, before swinging the sword and throwing it at the boy's feet. The blade sunk into the ground between the boy's legs, going as deep sinking past the full circle at the end of his sword.

"This is your first task, building strength, endurance and patience. You are to remove the sword from the ground and brining it across the line." Zabuza near ordered.

Naruto laughed loudly, a large grin spread across his face. "Move a sword? This will be a piece of cake!"

Zabuza himself chuckled at the boy's cluelessness. "You are not to approach myself or Haku until you have completed the task. You will not eat our food, be warmed by our fires, you will not even sleep anywhere near us until you have completed this task. And we will not be staying here long, so if you cannot complete even this task. I will deem you unworthy of being trained under me and I will leave you behind." Zabuza said nothing more, turning immediately and leaving the blond boy to do his training.

Naruto laughed loudly as Zabuza walked away. 'Move a sword, then I can continue onto the next stage of training!' He thought confidently, grasping the handle of the sword in his little hands, he pulled.

Nothing happened. He pulled again, much harder this time, again nothing. And now he realised. 'Just how heavy is this thing?' He screamed in his mind, he knew it was going to be heavier than most swords, but this must have weighed about 50 tonnes!

Struggling, he continued attempting to yank the sword from it's earthly cage. 'This is going to take a lot longer than I thought.' He sighed in his mind, taking a breather already.

Even the sun had left him now, once blue skies being replaced with darkening orange, many of the birds had stopped singing, yet his grunting still rang through their section of the forest.

He had been attempting to pull the sword from the earth for hours, but still he had not even moved it the slightest of centimetres, the sword wasn't upright, is was diagonal, at first he thought that might have made things easier, because he could actually reach the handle, but no. It still remained as stubborn as ever.

"Come on!" Naruto screamed, pushing down on the swords handle, hoping instead of pulling it out he could break the sword free by cutting back up through the earth.

His teeth clenched together, standing over the sword he now pulled the handle towards him, his yells of anger gritted out through his teeth.

Suddenly! It only lasted half a second, but he felt it. Dropping his hands, he looked around where the sword connected into the earth. A gap, only a couple of centimetres big, but a gap around the sword, some breathing space for the metal. A wide, victorious grin shot onto Naruto's face.

Jumping back up to his feet he lifted his head towards the heavens. "PROGRESS!" He screamed at the top of his lungs, laughing afterwards, birds close by flew away at the startling sound.

Completely unawares as he laughed up towards the heavens, a figure watched him from the shadows of a tree. Zabuza had been there for a while watching the boy struggle to move the sword, he himself saw the sword move just by a fraction.

Zabuza gave a quick nod of approval before moving back into the darkness, heading back towards the camp base.

A/N: Hey there! D.G.S here. Well that was Chapter 2, remember to R.E.R, Read, Enjoy, Review. This chapter was a lot shorter than the previous one and for that I apologise.

Now there will be quite a few OCs in this fic, the first one makes his debut. Nokoribi Kasō , I have a oicture of him on my profile. I am going to say this now and this counts for all other OCs, All credit goes to the artist who created the Oc or the person who invented them. I deserve no credit for there appearance, I am just giving them names (if they already do not have one) and abilities. Just saying.

Well we actually got somewhere this chapter, now I'm not sure whether to go straight to the assassination or fool around training abit more.

BIG HEADS UP! there won't be a Canon wave arc, hopefully I will skip straight to the Chunin Exam Arc with a fully functioning Chousekigakure no Sato (Village Hidden in the Tides).

Next chapter I will post a biography of Nokoribi, I quite like his character. And I have plans for Chouseki's main famous team, kinda like the Seven Swordsman or Ino-Shika-Cho. I don't want to spend too long in the past and hopefully get this story moving soon.

Well that's about it for now...

D.G.S