"Guys, wait don't leave me." Naruto yells struggling against the rope that ties him to the stump. Sasuke and Sakura walk away not even paying attention.
Kakashi sighs and walks back to untie him. I'm going to have to really drill in teamwork with these three. "Naruto didn't they teach you how to get out of this in the academy?" Naruto just looks up at him at a lost for words. Kakashi sighs again as the blonde frees himself. "Come on, I'll take you to lunch, but you can only have two bowls of ramen. I was warned by Iruka."
"Yeah," Naruto jumps in the air in excitement, "That's fine free food is free food." Quickly the blonde runs off yelling at Kakashi to hurry up.
Kakashi stares as Naruto is stuffing his face. He looks so much like Minato-sensei it's uncanny, but Minato had a girl. Kakashi sighs at this thought. He would've liked to train his late sensei's child. "Kakashi-sensei, is there something wrong?" the boy asks rubbing the back of his head with a wide grin. This gesture makes the boy look even more like the silver haired ninja's late sensei.
The man reaches out and rubs the blonde's messy hair. "Nothing I was just thinking how much you look like my old sensei."
This gets the boy's attention. "Who was your sensei?" Big blue eyes look up at the older man.
Kakashi is a private person, but there is just something about those blue eyes that he can not resist. Maybe it was that they remind him of his sensei, or maybe cause they looked like a girl's, or maybe it was that small spark that show pain but show such joy at the sametime."The Fourth Hokage." He pauses for a moment as he stares into space thinking of all those he had lost. "You know he had a child, a girl, about your age. I always thought it would be nice to train her, but I guess she didn't become a ninja. Couldn't say I would blame her. When I came back from a mission I found out how the village was treating her." His fist clenched. "It was not right."
Naruto looks down at the ground for a moment debating whether to tell him. He seems like he would different than the others that had known. He seems really upset about how I was treated when I was younger. Maybe he won't be like Mizuki. With his mind made up he looks up determined at his sensei. "Kakashi sensei there is something I want to show you." He grabs the silver haired ninja's arm and drags him to his apartment. That is not to far away.
After the door is closed Kakashi finally asks with a laugh at the young's blonde's antics. "What is it you want to show me."
With his back to Kakashi, Naruto takes off his jacket. Slowly he turns around to face Kakashi. The man eyes looks at the boy not knowing what he is suppose to see until they land of the 'boy's' chest. Naruto has just enough of a chest to tell she is a girl without her jacket. "My name is not Naruto, It's Naru Uzumaki, and I'm the Fourth's daughter."
At first Kakashi is at a lost. The now revealed girl walks to the closet after rummaging for a few moments and comes back with two pictures in her hand. She hands one to her sensei. "This one is when I was little, the Hokage took it." He looks to see the picture of a blonde little girl with pigtails and a toothy smile. She presses the other one to her chest for a moment before she shows the man. "This one is my favorite. It is the only one with all of us together." The picture of Kushina in a chair rubbing her huge stomach with one hand and the other on her husband's on her shoulder. The Fourth is looking at his wife lovingly. They both look so happy.
At seeing this picture he regains himself. He looks up at the girl. "They were so excited when they found out they were pregnant. Both of them had lost their family and they only had each other." Even with the mask she could feel the smile from him. "They were the closest thing I had to parents." He rubs the blonde's head. "I guess I get to train Minato's sensei's daughter after all." Naruto gets a big grin on her face. "The only thing I would like to know is why you are pretending to be a boy."
Kakashi ends up staying the rest of the afternoon while Naruto explains what is was like before the Third's plan and how she did kunoichi classes in secret. Kakashi also told Naruto about her father and mother. It was nice to hear about her parents. She had some talks with Sarutobi, but he was so busy running the village she never got much information about them.
"Okay I will see you tomorrow for our first mission." Kakashi says as he walks to the door.
"Kakashi-sensei," Naruto calls out in a small voice. "Can you not tell anyone I'm not ready for everyone to know. You are actually the first person I told."
The silver haired ninja smiles at the girl. "Of course Naru-chan, whenever you are ready." He thinks for a moment. "We will see if Sasuke and Sakura can figure it out on their own. Think of it as training for them." There is a gleam in her eye that reminds him so much of his old teammate. With that he left to go talk to the Hokage about the whole situation.
Over the next couple of weeks Kakashi come over more to make sure that Naruto was well taken care of and that she was eating probably. All she wanted to eat was ramen. Also team seven went on basic missions to help build teamwork and skill, but Naruto could not take it anymore and asks for a better mission. The Hokage conceded and right off the bat the old drunk they are protecting got on Naruto's bad side.
On the first day of the mission they were attacked by chunins from the village hidden in the mist. Naruto froze and ends up being injured by their poisoned claws. While Sasuke had saved the blonde. Sakura had done her best to protect the old drunk.
"Tazuna." Kakashi turn to the old drunk once the enemy ninja were tied to a tree. "Now that I know the ninja's were after you this is outside the scope of our mission. I know you have your reasons, but lying to us is unacceptable." He explains in an intimidating tone.
"We are genin, this is too much for us. I also think we should head back to the village to get Naruto's wound treated." Sakura says in a gently voice.
"Kakashi looks over to Naruto lazily. "Naruto's hand could be a problem."
In a rage of being a problem and holding everyone back, Naruto pulls out a kunai and jabs it in his hand. I will not be useless. "Why am I always… urgg? Why am I so different." He thinks about the nine tailed fox.
"Naruto, stop." Sakura yells out, worried about her teammate.
I have worked so hard to get here, but I have to be saved by Sasuke. Why? "I will never back down again. I will never have to be saved again." A few drops of blood hit the ground as Naruto says this. "I will protect you bridge builder with this kunai knife, believe it." I will never lose to Sasuke again even if I am a girl.
"Naruto, that was cool how you took the poison out and all but we need to stop the bleeding or you will die." Kakashi says calmly and Naruto starts freaking out.
As Kakashi wraps Naruto's hand Sakura comes over and nags Naruto about his recklessness. The silver haired ninja didn't mean for Naruto to take his words like he did. He was only going to use it as an excuse to get his young team out of a dangerous situation. He can't do that now. In hindsight he should've known he would of done something like this, both parents had a flare for the dramatics and their child seemed to inherent that.
Once Sakura walks off Naruto looks at Kakashi. "Kakashi-sensei, please don't take us back to the village."
Those big blue eyes get to Kakashi yet again. "How could I after what you did to continue. Just be more careful Naru-chan." Kakashi says just loud enough for the blonde to hear and gets a smile in return.
On the boat Tazuna explains the situation. Gato, the wealthy businessman and gangster, is after him. He is afraid to lose the money that is coming from the land of the bridge is built it is all over for Gato. They reach shore and everyone is on guard and to Kakashi surprise Naruto is the one to notice someone is following them first. Despite what everyone else yelling at the blonde he is correct about what is going on. At the moment Kakashi realized this a huge sword comes out of nowhere. The sword lodges itself in a tree behind the group and none other than Zabuza Momochi is standing on top of the hilt.
Thankfully Naruto does not rush in as the conversation between the group and Zabuza goes on. Getting tired of talking Zabuza jumps on the river in front of the group. "Enough talking I need to eliminate the old man now." The three genin surrounds the old drunk ready to protect him. "I guess I'll have to take care of everyone else first."
The mist starts to get thicker to the point where the genin can not see two feet in front of them. The intent to kill hangs heavy in the air and seems to be suffocating the three inexperienced kids. They have never felt anything like this before. They are all shaking from the fear of just the intent of these two experienced fighters. Is this what it means to be a ninja? Sasuke points his kunai at his stomach, prepared to take his own life to be able to escape the feeling of the two jonin. At that moment Kakashi clears the mist enough to allow the genin to see him.
"Sasuke calm down. I will not allow my comrades to die. Trust me." He turns around and smiles at the three. Secretly Naruto is happy to see that Sasuke lost his cool, but it is short lived. Zabuza appears between the genin and the bridge builder and they are thrown in separate directions. Kakashi rushes Zabuza stabbing him with a kunai. A poof and Zabuza disappears leaving a puddle of water in his place.
"Sensei behind you." Naruto yells.
Zabuza lets out an evil laugh. "How did you like my water clone." Kakashi dodges as Zabuza twirls his sword around. The enemy ninja plunges the sword into the dirt using it to kick Kakashi through the air into the river. The four bystanders can do nothing, but stare in disbelief. How can Zabuza be this strong? The laugh that comes from the man sends chills down everyone's spine. Next anyone knows Kakashi is trapped in a sphere of water with Zabuza hand stuck in it.
Another water clone appears on the shore in front of the three kids. "You must run away. As long as I am trapped he can only fight you with his water clone. It can not go far away from its owner."
Sakura and Naruto shake in fear as Sasuke steals his nerves. No matter where we go we will never be save he will come after us the only chance we have is to rescue Kakashi, Sasuke thinks to himself. He attacks with his shuriken while Naruto prepares to turn away and run. Naruto catches a glimpse of his injured hand. I made a promise to never run away and I will do this.
Sasuke gets thrown to the side as Naruto builds up his chakra. "Shadow clone jutsu." He yells then all ten Naruto's run at the clone. With ease the clone gets rid of all the Narutos the real one landing beside Sasuke.
"That is not going to work Dobe."
"I know, we need to go after the real one and make him release his jutsu. Kakashi-sensei is our only chance." Naruto says surprising Sasuke.
He nods his head then addresses Sakura. "Protect the bridge builder we got this." He says with a smirk on his face.
"Right, Sasuke." Despite it being the middle of a fight the loving tone in Sakura's voice is obvious as she says his name. "Stay behind me." She tells the old drunk.
"No, I told you to run." Kakashi yells at them. He could not take it if he losses his first team, especially Naru. He has lost to many comrades in his time as a ninja.
"We are just following your training sensei." Sasuke says.
"Yeah people who abandon their friends are worse than scum." Naruto finishes.
Zabuza laughs. "You have a weird group, and top of that two girls and a boy. That is not normal."
"You can tell can you?" Kakashi smirks. "There are only three people back in the village that knows Naruto is a girl."
"That is interesting." The silent killer replies.
Naruto attacks again with his shadow clones. While the clone is distracted Sasuke attacks with his shuriken. Once again the clone handles them with ease sending Naruto flying. Transforming into a fuma shuriken. Sasuke throws the shuriken with Naruto in its shadow. The silent killer catches the shuriken and dodges Naruto, but is forced to free Kakashi when Naruto throws a kunai at him.
"You little brat, I will kill you." Zabuza tried to attack Naruto with the giant shuriken but is blocked by Kakashi.
"I believe your fight is with me." Kakashi can't help but be proud of his students. They have been listening to his lessons and worked as a team.
"That was a fluke." Tazuna yells.
You can think it's a fluke all you want, but that was perfect teamwork. Without even talking they are the perfect team, and most of the time they act like they hate each other. Sakura thinks to herself.
After a few minutes of copying and messing with Zabuza's mind Kakashi hits him with a water vortex jutsu and is ready to deal the final blow. To everyone's surprise two senbon hits Zabuza in the neck killing him. As Kakashi cheeks for a pulse a boy with a mask steps out from behind a tree. "Thank you for making my job easy. If you do not mind I will be taking the body." Kakashi nods and the boy takes the body away.
"Kakashi-sensei, why did you let him take the body?" Naruto yells.
"Because he is a tracker ninja. It is his job to dispose of the body." Explains the silver haired ninja.
"But wouldn't it make more sense to dispose of it here instead of dragging it somewhere else?" The blonde asks in confusion as she tilts her head.
Kakashi pauses for a moment. That does make more sense, but there is nothing else we can do at the moment. "Well let's get to Tazuna house before…" Kakashi passed out before he could finish.
"Great now we have to carry him." Sasuke complains, but Naruto look worried as they pick up the man.
