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"Naruto's Speech"

"Normal Speech"

'Thoughts'

'Written word or radio'

"Kyuubi's voice"

'Kyuubi's Thoughts'

"Masked Figure's voice"

'Masked Figure's Thoughts'

"Jutsu(Translation)"

Timeskip-Six years and Two months later... The Village Hidden in the leaves..

"I swear Kakashi-Sensei if we have to chase that Demon cat again with only two people, your on your own!" Screamed a young pink haired girl as her stoic comrade glared in silence before giving a grunt, before turning and walking to the mission office carrying a shaking cat carrier which was emitting hisses and yowls ever few steps. As the trio reached the Hokage's desk Kakashi, now seen reading his porn book began his report "Team seven reporting in Hokage-sama D-Rank mission capture Tora has been completed." The Hokage nodded as he filled in the file and stamped his approval before Kakashi continued "I also believe that my squad is ready for a C-Rank Hokage-sama" The Hokage looked thoughtful before smirking and he tapped the glass sphere on his desk waiting for the person on the other side to pick up. "Kakashi for a C-Rank you need a squad of four, but luckily I know one ninja who is currently off duty and needs to get some team missions under his belt.." he trailed off as a shape seemed to appear in the glass globe that occupied a portion of his desk.

Meanwhile on the Yondaime's Head / Hokage Monument..

A red cloaked figure sat cross legged on the kage's stone effigy, Jack's appearance hadn't changed much over the past six years, well he'd gotten a lot taller, he now stood at five foot four and over the past six years he had improved his skills dramatically. He had also gained two new spell stones, a 'Raise Dead' and the 'Blood Mastery' stones. His outfit had remained the same but there was a change to his right gauntlet on the back was a glyph seal and in the center was a glowing red sphere. The sword of Aeons had also changed to fit Jack's style instead of the original longsword it had changed into a large zanbatou, the grip was two hands tall and could be wielded dual or single handed, the blade and crossguard had melded together and was a foot wide and stood at six foot long, the metal was a dark black and a symmetric engraving, a diamond shaped ruby embedded through the sword. The blade was wrapped in the same bandages as himself was. The jewel on his gauntlet shifted black someone was calling him, he sighed as he pressed the sphere on the back of his hand as the face of the Sandaime appeared before him and his mask appeared in the sphere on the desk. "Yes?"

Hokage's Office..

"Yes?" The voice echoed around the kage's office catching Team seven off guard as a pair of red eyes penetrated from the sphere, the face was masked by a mask of decretive porcelain, with red and gold etching. "Ah Jack how nice of you to take it out of your busy schedule to answer me" Sarutobi answered with a sense of humour. "What can I say, I've recently been busy. So old man what do you want me for" Sarutobi's reply was cut off by a screech "Baka! Who are you to think that you can speak to the Hokage like that?" Team seven's resident banshee demanded from the masked figure. The eyes of the figure rotated in the globe to glare at the girl "And who are you Gennin to shout and question someone who outranks you?" he retorts back at her, his eyes hardening causing her to freeze up before Sarutobi continues as if nothing had happened. "Anyway Jack I need you here to help Team seven on their first C-Rank and then to stay on their team for sometime." he finished looking at the red eyes unflinchingly. The eyes glared at team seven for a moment before the mask seemed to sigh and answered "Very well Hokage-Sama I shall be there momentarily" During this time Sasuke had thought it prudent to release the Daimyo's wife's cat and walked towards her holding it tightly as it wriggled in his grip, before scratching him on the face causing him to release a yelp and let her go. She landed softly on the ground and glanced around and noticed the open window near the mission desk, she made a sprint towards it before getting the feeling she was running through treacle, when she looked up again to check her route she froze in place.

In front of the now closed window was a figure in a tattered red cloak with with hood up and with eyes that pierced the darkness of the hood, the air seemed to get colder as a voice spoke, it seemed that the figures words appeared in their heads, bypassing their ears completely, the voice sounded sickenly sweet as the windows frosted up up. "Now Tora-chan, you weren't thinking of running away again were you?" He figure asks innocently, but what surprised most of the room was the face that Tora quickly shook her head then the figure continued "That's good to hear otherwise we may have a repeat of last time ne?" Tora shook her head again this time faster and more urgent "Good, now go back to mommy Tora-chan and behave and when I get back I'll talk to her about it ok?" He answer was a grateful meow as Tora ran back and leaped into her owners arms as she bared with the over the top petting. After the aura of the room returned to normal the Hokage pressed the inter-com button on his desk and spoke "Send in Tazuna will you?" His response was a 'Hai' and the door opened to reveal a man in his early fifties with a towel over his shoulders bandages round his wrists and was drinking a bottle of sake. He stumbled into the room as he took a swig from the bottle "I am the super bridge-maker Tazuna" he makes a shaky victory pose before glancing at the ninja before him and looking to the Hokage "These are the brats that are protecting me? The hooded one and the Pervy Cyclops look ok, but the pink howler monkey and the brooding parakeet look doubtful" he reasoned pointing at each individual at a time. Jack was silently laughing, Kakashi hadn't noticed as he was still reading his porn, Sakura and Sasuke looked pissed but were held back by their peers. Kakashi finally realised they were done and spoke to his team, along with Jack and Tazuna. "We'll meet up at the gates at eight O'clock till then Ja'ne" He disappeared in a cloud of white smoke and Jack followed in a cloud of red as the other two fumed and Tazuna looked confused.

The next morning... 7:55AM.. Main Gate...

Jack sat on a bollard near the village's main gate and was waiting with Tazuna for the rest of the group to arrive, he was currently leaning on his Zanbatou, on his face sat the mask of impassiveness, well that's what he called it. "So Tazuna-san, if you don't mind me asking but why did you choose Konoha for this mission when you could have quite simply gone to Kiri?" His words sounded hollow despite the mask, Tazuna looked slightly jumpy as he tried to come up with an answer "Well Kiri is still going through the Bloodline wars..." this stopped Jacks line of thought "They would also most likely over-charge us to fund their war.." he stopped when he heard the clash of Jack's gauntlets "WHAT?" this question shocked Tazuna, but before they could continue, Kakashi, Sakura and Sasuke showed up and they headed out of the village.

"So Jack-Sempai, when you said you outranked me, how much by?" Sakura asked politely as they walked along the dirt path, Sasuke listened in interested wondering if this new person could help him with his quest. "Oh? And why should I tell you something about myself when I know nothing about you all, well except Kakashi-Sempai" Jack answered simply, Kakashi cleared his throat before speaking up "ok I suggest that we introduce ourselves I'll start. My name is Kakashi Hakate, Kakashi-Sempai to Jack and Kakashi-Sensei to Sakura and Sasuke. My rank is Jonin my speciality is ninjutsu and my likes are limited, my dislikes are the same and my Dream? Hrrmm your not old enough to know" 'That's just a little more than last time' Sasuke and Sakura thought together. Sakura began "My name is Sakura Haruno, I'm a Genin, my likes are..." Glances at Sasuke and giggles "I dislike Ino-pig, and my dreams are..." looks at Sasuke again and giggles longer 'Oh great, a fangirl' Jack thought Sasuke grunted before speaking in a lazy drawl "My name is Sasuke Uchiha, my rank is Genin my likes are few, my dislikes are fewer and my ambition is to kill a certain man and restore my clan" at this Jack's echoing laugh rang through the forest as they walked past a puddle with Kakashi and Jack noticed was fake. "What's so funny mime?" Jack looked at the Uchiha before answering logically"Well if you die who will then avenge your clan? Restore your clan first then you have back up" as he finished two figures appeared from the puddle and wrapped a spiked chain around Kakashi and pulled the chain together as Kakashi body was shredded the pair sang "One down, four to go"

Sasuke and Sakura jumped back to protect Tazuna while Jack looked slightly peeved when he noticed the pair as they ran past him, he didn't even bother to draw his blade. He reached out with his metal clawed gauntlet and grabbed hold of the chain between the two of them, the two wanna-be assassins promptly ran into each other. As Jack pulled them in Kakashi appeared from no where shocking the two Genin while the two mist chunnin were sweating under the glare of Jack as he removed their gauntlets and bound them together. Finally he spoke "Gozu, Meizu it's been a long time and what have I told you about your genjutsu, you still haven't improved since we last met" this comment caused the rest of the group to face plant "Erm Jack-Sempai? Do you know these two?" Sakura asked pointlessly causing everyone to sweat drop 'you think?' was what crossed most minds.
"Yes Sakura I know these two, I met them while I lived in Kiri and trained under the Swordsmen and if these two are still working with who I think they are then I get to have a student-teacher reunion. And since you guys lost to me again, I will take your gauntlets and use them myself, I could probably do a better job than the pair of you." this last comment was directed at the twins who had their heads hung low in shame. Jack placed the chained gauntlets into his scroll before tapping the sphere on his gauntlet "This is Jack of Blades calling in ANBU squad Hero we have two chumps for you to pick up, they are not to be harmed unless specified by myself personally and in writing with confirmation fro the Hokage. They are four miles out of main gate. Over" The orb flashed twice with confirmation before they carried on. "Just who is your Teacher Jack?" Kakashi asked with an eyesmile "Oh don't worry sempai if it's who I think it is we'll get a warm reception Or maybe a chilly one depending on who is with him."

Boundary of wave country

As the group drifted silently across the water the silhouette of the bridge faded into view the group sans Tazuna let out a group "Ahhh" of appraisal before they were shushed by the ferryman. After they had landed they walked through the trees, keeping an eye out for anything when Sasuke throws a kunai into a nearby bush as Jack goes to look he comes back holding a shaking white rabbit and Sasuke's kunai before tossing it to the brooding tween. As he is about to speak, Kakashi shouts "DUCK!" Kakashi grabs Tazuna and Sakura and drags them to the floor while Sasuke leaps out of the way, and Jack? He just leans back and watches as the blade speeds past him and embeds itself into a tree trunk and mutters loud enough for everyone to hear "Talk about OVER-compensating Sensei" As Zabuza misses the handle of the blade and land on the ground with a 'thump' as everyone else was giving the pair a 'what the Fuck?' look.
Zabuza chuckles as he sits up before firing back a retort "Says you Gaki" Jack hold his gauntleted hand to the chin of his mask and looks thoughtful, well as thoughtful as someone who's wearing a mask can look. Before replying in a slightly whiny voice "But sensei, my Zanbatou keeps me balanced." This comment caused Sakura and Sasuke to blush, Kakashi, Zabuza and Tazuna to giggle pervertedly and cause a crash in the near distance, sounding like someone falling out of a tree and hitting a few branches on the way down. As Jack noticed this he added snappishly "I meant my armour you perverts, so Sensei is it true what I've read in the bingo books about you and Haku-chan?" Zabuza's reply was cut off before it left his mouth as he was interrupted by a new voice. "God-dammit Jack I've told you that I'm a boy!" came a voice from behind a tree and out stepped a rather pissed looking Haku, who was twirling a senbon through his fingers in his right hand while his left held his hunter-nin mask.

"It's nice to see you again Haku, whichever gender you are" Jack continued as he pried his teacher's blade from the tree and hands it to the demon of the mist. "Yeah it's true, but that blue skinned bastard set us up! and the Mizukage set the bounty on our heads before we struck and most of the seven were executed buuut.." He paused as he pulled out a navy blue scroll "I kept their swords and bodies as you asked, they were hung so you only have to fix their necks." He tossed the scroll over to Jack who caught it and quickly hid it in his robes "so your just giving him the bounty Zabuza-san?" Sakura asked cluelessly to which Zabuza laughed darkly as Haku and Jack joined him. "He doesn't sell the corpses she-gaki"

"I use them as weapons" Jack chips in his mask giving an impression of smugness and sadism before he turns to Zabuza, who tried to look businesslike and failing. "Standard response to tyrant tycoon?" Jack asked casually to Zabuza, to which the browless one nodded "see you on the bridge in a week brat, Haku will tell you when" The pair Shushinned off as Jack faced his team and principle, before tilting his head as he noted that their jaws hung two inches lower than normal. "Well? shall we continue? Tazuna if you would kindly direct us to your home?" They were about to continue on their way before a shrill scream rank though the forest. Jack looked down into his arms, remembering the white rabbit from earlier, who was quite happily nibbling away at a thread on Jack's cloak.
"I swear" Began Jack "That girl isn't worth the trouble but then she occasionally pull results from a hat, but there are moment when she is scatterbrained, and now is one of those times" A small gust of wind spiralled into being as Haku ran from it and snatched the rabbit from Jacks hand and hugged it to his chest "Snowy, I'm sorry I left you here, I forgot completely" Haku began to walk off again before turning round again and adding "I am a boy dammit!" before vanishing into the breeze unable to hear Jack's belated reply "Well your moment with the rabbit clouds that opinion with doubt, moving on shall we continue?" The last part was directed team seven and Tazuna who nodded and lead the way muttering to himself "The sooner we get back, the sooner I can wash my hands of this weirdness." Team seven nodded silently as Jack shrugged.