Alright guys I hope you liked the last chapter, I know it was a slow one I just wanted to introduce the council which considering Naruto's circumstances should be more of a thorn in his side in the Anime. The date took me a little while to write, I don't really think it was that good, it's been quite I while since I've been in a position to make a good first impression… heh… heh… yea… Anyways a few people asked me to explain how everyone has met Naruto, don't worry I plan on it when the time seems right. I don't own Naruto, to bad.

-Konoha, 3 days later.

Naruto and team seven had just finished completing their latest tor- err assignment, of finding Tora, the bane of every Genin squad, and were currently making their way back to the Hokage tower. Kakashi was reading his little orange book, much to Haku's annoyance, Sasuke was brooding, Sakura was still fawning over Sasuke, and Naruto was deep in thought about things that had happened the past few days. He loved his new house, as did Haku, it was a large compound, not as big as the Hyuuga compound, but still fairly large. The front yard was large, and with a few more days of yard work should be back to its former glory, Naruto had spent the past two days cutting the grass and getting rid of all the weeds, while Haku had been working in the garden. Naruto would only admit it to a few people, but he enjoyed gardening, and had even offered Haku some suggestions for types of flowers they should plant. The inside of the house was beautiful, the floors were made out of marble, while the walls were stained oak, giving it a brilliant yellow/brown glow. Most of the furniture was mahogany, which surprised Naruto because mahogany was a rare and expensive kind of wood around Konoha, and usually required shipping from other nations. The kitchen was quite spacious, with a large rectangular table near the far left corner, it also had its own bar, which Naruto knew he would make good use of when he had more friends and was a little older. The bedrooms were spread out around the second floor of the house, while the master bedroom took up most of the top floor, complete with a large walk in closet and a beautiful bathroom. The basement was another story; Naruto knew he would be spending A LOT of time in the basement as that is where his father's jutsu library was, along with notes pertaining to techniques that he had been working on before he died.

The backyard was in worse shape than the front, but Naruto believed with work it would be his favorite spot in the entire compound. It had a large outside training dojo, complete with moving and stationary targets for target practice, along with a large lake. Naruto knew Haku would love the lake; it gave her plenty of water to practice her Ice Jutsus, along with Zabuza who could work on his Water Jutsus. In the morning Naruto would create a few hundred shadow clones, he would send some to the basement to start reading his father's scrolls, while some would work on his kenjutsu, and others on sealing practice; but the majority Naruto would take with him onto the lake and have them attack him all at once, not only working on combat experience and reflexes, but his chakra control and reserves as well. He called this his variation of the water walking exercise, but those who knew about it just called him crazy, and would have to recommend having this taught to Genin with a few months experience.

Naruto was so caught up in his thoughts that he wasn't paying attention, and as he rounded a corner he bumped into someone else, knocking the person over. Looking down Naruto notice the person he had bumped into was Hinata, it turned out that Team 8 was just getting back from completing a mission as well, as he noticed Kiba, Shino, and Kurenai came into view shortly after.

"S-sorry Naruto-kun, I-I wasn't paying a-a-attention to where I was going." Hinata stammered from her spot on the floor, head down hiding her embarrassment.

"Heh, don't worry about it Hinata-chan, it was my fault, I was lost in my thoughts and didn't notice you, which I might add is rather hard because of how beautiful you are." Naruto said with a smile, which turned out to be a mistake, for as soon as Hinata's mind registered what Naruto said she promptly fainted, a blissful smile on her face.

The others watched on with mixed reactions, Kurenai and Haku watched on in amusement as they both knew of Hinata's crush on Naruto. Kiba was angry that Naruto had walked into Hinata, while at the same time pissed off at Hinata's reaction to Naruto calling her beautiful. Shino looked on in his usual emotionless way, Sakura was also angry at Naruto's actions, both for knocking Hinata over and what he said to her, and also a little confused, I mean Hinata was in the presence of her oh-so-precious Uchiha, why would she care about Naruto, right? While Kakashi and Sasuke just didn't seem to care, and if they did, they hid it rather well.

"Well I guess I should have expected that." Naruto said as he picked Hinata up and placed her on one of the benches nearby.

"What do you mean by that Naruto?" Kurenai asked

"I think you already know the answer to that Kurenai-sensei, as well as you Haku-chan." Naruto said with a slight smirk.

"Is she sick or something?" Kiba asked, making Naruto, Haku, and Kurenai sweatdrop.

"No Kiba, she's fine, I'll take her back to the Hyuuga compound. You two can go home, take the rest of the day off." Kurenai said as she picked Hinata up and started walking out of the tower.

"Better stay away from Hinata loser, she's mine." Kiba said, looking towards Naruto.

"Riiiight, because that's totally what it looks like from here, sorry mutt but Hinata is not some prize for you to win, if you ever try to force yourself on her you will have to deal with me; got it?" Naruto said, glaring at Kiba while releasing a little of his killing intent, making everyone except Haku and Kakashi sweat.

"Why anyone would want to be with you while they could be with an Alpha male like me is beyond me." Kiba said while looking towards Haku.

"I didn't realize that being near the bottom of the graduates made you an Alpha, I wonder what your mom and sister would have to say about this attitude of yours Kiba." Naruto said with a smirk, effectively making Kiba pale and shut up.

"Hn, if you losers are done arguing we need to see the Hokage so I can get back to training." Sasuke said as he started to walk away with Sakura right behind him.

"Alright Emo-Sama, lead the way." Naruto said, making Haku giggle and Kakashi have to stifle a chuckle.

A few minutes later team seven is in front of the Hokage, and the Fire Daimyo's wife, who is currently crushing her dem-err cat. Naruto and Haku can now understand why the cat runs away, while Sasuke and Sakura look on with an evil glint in their eye; and Kakashi? Well he is still reading his little orange book. After giving thanks and talking a little with the Hokage the Fire Daimyo's wife left, leaving team seven along with the Hokage and Iruka in the office.

"Alright I want a report, although I can only imagine how it went." The Sandaime asked.

"Alright Hokage-Sama, the mission went fairly well. Naruto and Haku showed great teamwork as they came up with a plan to lure the cat into a trap that we had set. After the cat was in the trap Sasuke and Sakura tried to subdue it, but failed; it was about to get away when Haku used a senbon to knock it out. On our way back we ran into team eight that was coming back from giving a mission report, after a little argument between teams we arrived here." Kakashi concluded, making the Sandaime nod.

"Alright Kakashi good job, Sakura, Sasuke, you two are dismissed, I want to talk with the rest of you." Hiruzen said.

"Why do these two get special treatment? I should whatever they do." Sasuke said, making Sakura nod in his defence.

"Because Teme, if I'm right what we need to talk about is a SS-Class secret that concerns me and a few others, now leave before me or the ANBU force you out." Naruto said as he turned to Sasuke.

"Whatever dobe, if it has to do with you it probably isn't important anyways." Sasuke said as he turned and left, Sakura hot on his heels.

"Alright you two come out, and may I see the letter jiji?" Naruto asked, going back to his term of endearment for his grandfather figure.

"You always were quite perceptive brat." Zabuza said as he seemed to just walk out of the wall, followed by Itachi.

Naruto smirked as Sarutobi handed him an envelope, opening it Naruto started to look through its contents. A few minutes later Naruto put the letter in one of his pockets and turned to the Hokage.

"Alright it seems like everyone else has accepted, so where do you want us old man?" Naruto asked.

"Alright Naruto, like we agreed you and Haku will be staying in Konoha with team seven, looking after Sasuke as well as acting as a way of communication between everyone. Zabuza I want you to go to wave country, you will be going undercover as a missing-nin for a man named Gato, and he is a very influential man and might have information on what we are looking for. Itachi, I want you to remain in Fire country, go from village to village asking for information; I expect a report at the end of every week, from both of you." The Sandaime said.

"Hai Hokage-Sama!" Both said in unison.

"Alright, for the rest of your group I want them to spread out among their home countries, I know you have Ninja from every major village and a few of the smaller ones, so keep them in familiar territory, I will give you mission scrolls and your first payment today so everyone can get supplies they may need." He said, as he started writing in a few scrolls before he handed them to Naruto.

"Excuse me Hokage-Sama, but what is going on?" Kakashi asked.

"That's right, sorry Kakashi; it seems we have a threat to the security of the elemental Nations. There appeared to be a group of very powerful ninja going through and destroying villages, we are unsure of what they are looking for but whatever it is we do not want them to succeed. I hired Naruto's group to gather information for me as well as our allies." The Sandaime explained.

"Ok that makes sense, but why are Naruto and Haku watching over Sasuke?"

"It's simple, Kakashi-sempai, my little brother is hell bent on revenge for what happened to the Uchiha Clan, I believe that if he were to be offered power from an outside source that he would take it. I requested for Naruto to be placed on your team of Genin so that he could watch Sasuke, and perhaps help him in the future. Haku, well Haku asked to be placed with Naruto, as I'm sure you have seen they work very well together. Along with that goes the fact that they are not Genin level Shinobi, both are at a level of mid-level Jounin, the only thing holding them back is experience." Itachi explained. Kakashi couldn't help but agree with him, he had seen Naruto and Haku work together and was very impressed, but he could also feel that they were holding back; if they were to go all out he was sure they could give him a run for his money, possibly even beat him.

"Alright Hokage-Sama, I understand." Kakashi said.

"Wait! I thought you said we would get Chunnin status? Where are our vests jiji?" Naruto asked.

"Oh that's right, sorry Naruto, Haku, but I won't be able to give you your vests until the Chunnin exams come around, while the council already knows about your rank I don't think it would be a good idea to put that information out so soon, Sasuke would probably try and make the council force me to give him a promotion." The Sandaime said, making Naruto nod in agreement.

"Well you are dismissed, come back tomorrow for another mission." The Hokage said, making the others in the room bow and leave via Shunshin.

-Konoha Two months Later-

The past two months had gone by a little slow for Naruto and Haku, they weren't used to doing such low ranked missions, and to be quite honest they were getting tired of it and wanted something more challenging. To complement the boring missions Sasuke had become more… emo-like, and Sakura hadn't changed at all, making the time they spent together even worse. After the last attack a few months ago, the group they were trying to gain leads on had effectively disappeared, making it near impossible to get any information on them, which only added to the frustration for Naruto and Haku, as well as the Hokage.

Currently team seven was in the same position they had been in two months ago, watching the Fire Daimyo's wife effectively squeeze the life out of her cat, but if anyone felt sorry for the cat, they definitely hid it well. After a few minutes team seven found themselves alone with the Hokage and Iruka again.

"Hokage-Sama, I would like to request a higher level mission." Naruto said out of the blue, making everyone look at him questioningly.

"You can't just request a mission Naruto, especially a higher rank one. You and Haku might be ready for high level missions but Sasuke and Sakura are not." Iruka said, earning a glare from both Sakura and Sasuke.

"I know that Iruka, I'm sorry but this has to do with something else entirely, special permission is required to know what I'm about to tell the Hokage I hope you understand Iruka." Naruto said.

"Alright Naruto, I have a feeling I know what you are talking about, Iruka, could you please excuse us for a minute." Hiruzen said.

Iruka nodded and left the room, as Naruto put a privacy seal up.

"Alright," Naruto started as he turned to Sasuke and Sakura, "What I'm about to say remains in this room, if you speak about to anyone I will kill you." Naruto said. While neither of them liked Naruto, they had learned a lot of Naruto's skills over the past two months, and neither of them would argue when he was this serious, so they did all they could and nodded.

"Zabuza contacted me recently, apparently Gato is running wave country into the ground, and the only hope for the country is a man named Tazuna and the bridge he is building. Wave country does not have enough money for the type of mission this should be classified as, so they are asking for it under a C-ranked escort mission. Zabuza has also said that Gato has no information on what we are currently looking for, and has requested that we take this mission to get rid of Gato so he can join… someone else" Naruto glanced at Sasuke, earning a nod from the Hokage, "around fire country. What I am requesting is that team seven, along with team eight take this mission, tell Tazuna to keep the money for the mission as I will personally fund this myself." Naruto said, making everyone but Haku look at him in surprise.

"Naruto, if what you said is true then this mission is easily A ranked, are you sure that you want to pay for it?" The Sandaime asked.

"Yes, I can't allow someone like Gato to control a country like wave, where the country is located it would be a perfect area to help him with his… other kind of business." Naruto said. "Plus it's the right thing to do, I have the money to pay for an A ranked mission and if I can help save a country in the process well that's just bonus for me."

Minato/Minato-sensei, you would be proud of the man your son has become, thought Kakashi and Hiruzen, proud smiles on both their faces.

That's my Naruto-kun, Haku thought with a smile.

"Alright Naruto, I will accept your request, but why team eight?"

"Well a tracking team would be good on this kind of mission, while Zabuza is not an enemy, he cannot blow his cover so we will have to fight with him at least once. It would be good training for team eight's tracking skills, with Kiba's nose, Hinata-chans eyes, and Shino's bugs, they should have no problems sensing 'enemy' ninja." Naruto said.

"Alright Naruto, you make a good point, I'll call for both the bridge builder and team eight."

Team eight arrived a few minutes later, and when they noticed team seven they got mixed reactions. Of course Hinata, Kurenai, and Shino were happy to see them, but Kiba looked angry and if you listened closely enough, you could hear a slight growl escaping his throat. Even with the semi-hostile atmosphere the two teams managed to talk about what had happened since their last run in, they talked about their training and the low ranking missions they had been on. Soon enough a tall rough looking man entered the room, he had tanned skin which indicated that he worked outside most of his life, his hair was grey and his cloths were a little disheveled and it was clear that he hadn't taken a shower in a few days.

"This is who you're sending to guard me? A bunch of kids, a man with one eye, and a model?" The man asked.

"Tazuna, I don't think you should speak ill of my comrades and me, while it is true we are a bunch of kids, I believe that we are capable of protecting you. Me and my friend here," Naruto said as he points to Haku, "have been trained by some of the best Shinobi the Elemental Nations have to offer for the better part of six years, the man with one eye is one of Konoha's strongest Jounin and was trained by my father, the Fourth Hokage, and the model, while she is beautiful, is known as 'The Genjutsu Mistress of Konoha', so I would advise you not to take us lightly, considering I'm paying for your mission." Naruto explained. Kurenai's team looked at their sensei knowing that she wasn't a fan of perverts, but try as she might Kurenai couldn't find it into herself feel angry at the young man's compliment, and had to force down a blush.

"What do you mean you're paying for my mission?" Tazuna asked.

"How I know is currently not important, but I know that Gato is trying to kill you, he has hired three missing-nins from Kiri to try and kill you, along with his personal samurai. Wave country cannot afford to pay for an A ranked mission so I told the Hokage not to worry about your payment as I would pay for the mission myself, it's the right thing to do." Naruto explained.

"Th-thank you." Tazuna said, his voice barely more than a whisper as he was trying to hold in his emotions.

"How do you know this Naruto?" Kurenai asked, suddenly a little wary of the young man in front of her.

"Like I said, it's a secret Kurenai-sensei; I promise I will tell you more when we get some time to ourselves." Naruto said, Kurenai was about to argue but was stopped when Kakashi put a hand on her shoulder, looking at her as if to say trust him.

"Alright Naruto, I'll hold you to that promise." Kurenai said as she went and stood back with her team.

"Alright, like Naruto said, this is going to be an A ranked mission, you will be facing enemy ninja's so keep your head on a swivel, Kakashi is in charge of this mission, if for some reason Kakashi is unable to lead, Kurenai will take command. For whatever reason both are taken out or give orders otherwise, Naruto will be giving the orders, no questions asked." The Sandaime said, earning nods from all in attendance, as well as a few glares.

"Alright team, meat at the south gate in one hour, prepare for a month long mission." Kakashi said, as he Kurenai, Haku and Naruto all left via Shunshin; leaving the others to walk out.

"Heh, I like that blonde kid already." Tazuna said as he made his way out of the office.

-An hour later, South Gate-

Naruto and Haku were the first to arrive, followed closely by Kakashi. Since his talk with Naruto in training ground seven a few months ago he had pretty much dropped his tardiness issue. A few minutes later Tazuna came into view, followed by team eight; leaving them waiting for Sasuke and Sakura. After a few minutes Sasuke appeared followed by Sakura, which wasn't surprising for the other members of team seven.

"Alright you guys, Naruto I know that you lack skills in leading a team which is the only thing holding you back at the moment, so I want you to come up with the formation, me and Kurenai will give our advice if we feel that there need to be changes" Kakashi said.

"Hai, Kakashi-sensei." Naruto said as he started going through the best formation for their group.

"Alright this is what I want guys, Kakashi you take the lead, as you are no doubt the strongest of our group, I will follow you as I can use my shadow clones to scout ahead, Kiba I want you behind me using your nose to pick up anything my clones might have missed. I want Sasuke behind Kiba, with Shino behind Sasuke, as his use of his bugs will help scout the area where my clones cant, also Shino I would like you to place a female bug on each of us just in case one of us gets separated from the group. Sakura will be behind Shino. Hinata I want you behind Sakura, your Byakugan can pick up foreign chakra signatures and see through any Genjutsu the enemy might use to mask their presence. Haku I want you behind Hinata, being the second strongest among the Genin you and Kurenai should be able to handle any threat that comes at us from behind." Naruto explained, while Kakashi and Kurenai looked on with a slight bit of awe, they had come up with exactly the same formation. While neither of them doubted Naruto's planning skills they had not expected him to be able to come up with the same thing they did.

"That's very impressive Naruto; I couldn't have come up with a better setup. The four strongest of the group put at the back and front while the trackers are spread evenly among the others, I'm proud of you." Kakashi said, while Kurenai nodded in agreement.

"Heh, no problem Kakashi-sensei." Naruto said sheepishly.

-Few hours Later-

The group had been making good time considering they were escorting a civilian; even though the man was old he was still in pretty good shape. As the group passed a couple puddles Naruto smirked to himself. Heh, looks like Zabuza managed to find the demon brother's this should be interesting, he thought as he looked back at Kurenai, Haku, and Hinata, who all nodded at him. Soon after the puddle disappeared and two figures wearing face masks with slashed Kiri headbands sprang out of the ground, shooting spiked chains out of their gauntlets, capturing both Kakashi and Kurenai before they ripped them to shreds. Naruto and Haku sprang into action, Haku making quick work of her adversary by sending senbon into his neck, effectively knocking him out.

"Meizu! I'll kill you you bitch!" he yelled.

"Ah, that's Meizu; you must be Gozu then, The Demon Brothers from Kiri." Naruto said as he stepped in from of Gozu. "Sorry but your fight is with me."

Naruto rushed in, throwing a punch at Gozu's face. Gozu was a little surprised by Naruto's speed but recovered quickly, barely dodging his fist. He tried to gain some distance from Naruto but was to slow. Naruto closed the distance and sent a spinning back kick to Gozu's head, Gozu raised his arm to block but it wasn't enough as Naruto's strength broke his guard, sending Gozu flying into a nearby tree. Gozu stood on shaky legs only to find Naruto in front of him again, kicking him in the stomach and sending a knee to his face, sending him back to the ground as blood started to gush out of his broken nose. Naruto appeared behind Gozu and delivered a quick chop to the back of the neck, rendering him unconscious, Naruto then lifted him up and brought him over to the others, and tied Gozu to Meizu using strengthened ninja wire so they wouldn't escape. Turning back to the group he noticed the two splintered logs on the ground and smirked.

"Kakashi-sensei, Kurenai-sensei, you two can come out now." Naruto said, confusing the others except for Haku.

"Dobe didn't you see it? They died, now you guys are going to listen to me, we are going back to Konoha." Sasuke said as he turned to leave.

"Look at the ground Sasuke what do you see?" Naruto asked.

"Splintered logs, and dirt, that's about it." Sasuke replied.

"For someone who was supposed to be rookie of the year you don't seem to know much, those are logs that were used for substitution, plus if you tried you could easily sense both Kakashi and Kurenai's chakra signatures up in the trees above you. And on a side note, if Kurenai and Kakashi were really dead, I would still be in charge seemingly as the Hokage personally put me ahead of everybody else, so we wouldn't be returning to Konoha unless you wanted to be charged with insubordination." Naruto said.

"I don't have to listen to you, I am an Uchiha, and you are just an orphan from a…" Sasuke started but was cut off from a voice in the trees.

"Actually Sasuke, you would have had to listen to Naruto, as it was a direct order from the Hokage, and even the council couldn't save your arrogant ass. Your attitude has been getting on my nerves if it wasn't for the council I would have the Hokage revoke your Shinobi rank until you learn to respect your betters." Kakashi said as he appeared behind Naruto, followed by Kurenai.

"Good reaction time Naruto, Haku, I will have a talk with the Hokage about your abilities when we return. You both do not deserve to only be Genin." Kakashi said, and Kurenai nodded in agreement.

"Heh, thanks Kakashi-Sensei, we appreciate it." Naruto said with a smirk. "But I would like to interrogate the Demon Brothers with you AND Kurenai-sensei present; we need to discuss a few things as well." Naruto said, and Kakashi gave a knowing nod.

Half an hour later the demon brothers woke up, groaning slightly as they worked the kink out of their necks.

"So you two are awake now, I must admit I'm surprised Zabuza managed to contact you two." Naruto said as he went to untie them

"Naruto what are you doing! These two attacked us!" Kurenai shouted as she went to stop Naruto, but Kakashi got in her way. "What are you doing Kakashi! Do you realize what your student is doing!"

"Yes I know, this is all part of the mission, believe me Kurenai we will explain everything to you shortly." Kakashi said as he released her.

"You guys really didn't need to go that hard on us." Gozu snapped, causing Naruto and Haku to chuckle lightly.

"Sorry you two, but we had to make it believable, we are going to have to rough you up a little more before you go back to Gato though, and is Zabuza-sensei going to be attacking us as well?" Naruto asked.

"Damnit, if it helps the mission I guess we have no choice, just don't go overboard, you really enjoyed beating the shit out of us didn't you?" Meizu asked.

"Haha, yea it was rather enjoyable." Naruto said, "Now please you two tell me about Gato's plan." Naruto said.

"Alright well Gato has a hideout about 75 miles out of wave that serves as his main hideout. That's where most of his samurai guards are located as well; I would estimate that there are about two hundred of them. He also has a few separate bases located where he keeps some of his drug shipments and slaves for trade, along with all the money he has taken from wave. If you have a map I can give you the location of the ones with the money and the slaves." Gozu said, earning a nod from Naruto.

"And what of Zabuza, what does Gato have planned for him?" Naruto asked.

"Zabuza will intercept you when you reach the land of wave, about ten miles from where he believes you are going to land." Gozu said.

"Alright, and don't worry about the map, when all of this is done we can hit all the bases in a coordinated attack to catch them off guard, when you return tell Zabuza to watch his back, as well as you two, we don't know if Gato has things going on behind the scenes. Just be careful." Naruto said.

"Hai, Naruto-sama." The brothers replied in unison.

"And enough of that Naruto-Sama bullshit, just call me Naruto, jeez how many times do I have to explain it to you." Naruto said as he grew a tick mark on his forehead, causing Haku and the two brothers to laugh at him. Naruto suddenly got an evil glint in his eyes as he smiled at the two brothers, who stopped laughing as soon as they saw his face and paled a little.

"I'm going to enjoy this." Naruto said as he took out his father's sword, causing the two to pale even more as they started to stutter out apologies. The next ten minutes felt like hours for the two brothers as Naruto 'roughed' them up, leaving torn clothes and a few cuts and bruises. The two brothers then left the group to return to Gato, as well as to give Zabuza the message from Naruto.

"Alright, explanations now!" Kurenai said.

"Alright, Kurenai as you know me and Haku have not been in the village for the past six years, we have been travelling across the Elemental Nations honing our skills with a group of my father's mercenaries that included some of the best Shinobi from different villages; Zabuza Momoichi, The Demon of the Bloody Mist, was one of my teachers. Upon our return to Konoha, the Hokage issued us a mission; I cannot go into details about the mission as it's currently a SS secret, I should talk to jiji about that actually, the Jounin should know at least. Anyways, my group separated throughout the elemental nations, trying to gain information for our mission, Zabuza has a good record being an ex-missing-nin and all, and was sent to infiltrate Gato's organization in Wave Country. Zabuza sent me information a week ago saying that Gato had learned of Tazuna's intention to Hire Shinobi from Konoha, so I personally requested our teams to work together. Your team is a good tracking team, and because of the fact that Zabuza and the Demon Brothers are not fighting at full strength, but will still give us a challenge, I thought it would be good practice for your team to improve their tracking skills. That's the reason I got us into the formation that I did, if it had been any other team I would have just had us travel as separate teams, not combined." Naruto explained, earning a nod from Kurenai, she couldn't really argue with Naruto's logic.

"I really did want to tell you before something like this happened, but I wasn't expecting the demon brothers so soon." Naruto said.

"It's alright Naruto; just warn me sooner next time ok? I almost didn't have enough time for a substitution."

"Sorry Kurenai-chan, I didn't mean for you to almost get hurt, it won't happen again."

"Kurenai-chan huh Naruto?" Kurenai asked with a smirk.

"S-sorry Kurenai-sensei." Naruto said sheepishly as he scratched the back of his head.

"Don't worry about it, Na-ru-to-kun." Kurenai said teasingly as she turned and walked back to her group, leaving behind a blushing Naruto and Kakashi, although you couldn't see it because of his mask, while Haku just raised an eyebrow.

"Quite the lady-killer huh Naruto-kun." Haku said with a giggle as she followed Kurenai out of the clearing.

Kakashi managed to sum everything up with one word as he looked towards Naruto.

"Shit." Kakashi said, as Naruto nodded. Things were definitely starting to get interesting for Naruto.

And that's a wrap on that chapter, I hope you guys liked my spin on the normal Wave Country arc; I feel that it has gone good so far. The fight scene didn't last very long I'm sorry as I'm sure that some of you are looking for more action. Next Chapter will have a fight scene with Zabuza in it; I'll try to make it as interesting as possible. As you can see I'm starting interactions between Naruto and a few of the girls that will most likely be appearing in the Harem. Next chapter will have Hinata confront Haku about Naruto and a few other things, like I said I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I'm going to list a few stories that I believe are worth reading.

-Naruto vs. Sasuke: The Aftermath, by KingKakashi. NaruHina, still in progress.

-Entwined by Love, Enslaved by Fate, by Codaram, Another NaruHina fiction that is still in progress with the author taking the summer off.

-Demon Dragon Rider, by Leaf Ranger, A Naruto/Inheritance Cycle crossover. Also NaruHina.

-Naruto: One Man Team by Ackdam. The story is unfinished and I don't think it will ever be finished, but I still believe it is worth reading. NaruHarem.

-The Ultimate Dojutsu, by KyuubiGoku, NaruHarem

-Naruto Dragon Champion, by Freedom Guard, I still don't know the pairing to the story, but I found it under unusual pairings and I think it's worth reading.

Again thank you to everyone who has followed/favorite me and my story, as well as left a review. I can't thank you all enough.