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Chapter 3

The group of Naruto Uzumaki, Hinata Hyuga, Shikamaru Nara, Chouji Akamichi, Rock Lee, and Neji Hyuga had finally made it to the outskirts of the Land of Waves, where they were hoping to find someone to transport them to the land of Whirlpools. Naruto had decided his best bet would be to go to his home land and find out everything he could.

"Hey look guys! This bridge shares the same name as Naruto!" Lee exclaimed as they reached the bridge that Naruto and his team had helped Tazuna build so long ago.

"Heh, I can't believe they actually named it after me." Naruto said with a sheepish grin while rubbing the back of his head.

"What do you mean, Naruto-kun?" Lee asked curiously.

"Well way back when Sasuke was with us, we were given our first c-rank mission. It was to protect a bridge builder named Tazuna. It ended up being an A-rank mission since we were attacked by a bunch of strong ninja like Zabuza and the demon brothers. Kakashi had taken out Zabuza once, but a fake hunter ninja named Haku came and took him away before we could check if he was really dead, and Kakashi was seriously worn out. We had a last showdown on the bridge where Sasuke unlocked his sharingan before being put in a near death state with senbon. I thought he had died however, and I unconsciously tapped into the Nine Tails chakra for the first time apparently. I honestly don't remember that but Kakashi told me. I was about to kill Haku like he wanted, but he ended up having something else in mind.

Flashback (Yay my first one lol)

"You have to kill me Naruto-kun, I am no longer useful to Zabuza, I lost." Haku said with a sad smile, knowing that his end was near.

"It doesn't have to be like this! You aren't just a tool, you have to mean something to Zabuza!" Naruto exclaimed, clearly upset and not wanting to make his first kill.

"I'm afraid this is the only way. Don't worry, I already accepted my fate and we are enemies after all." Haku told him.

"Well I guess if there's no other way." Naruto said sadly as he pulled out a kunai shaking severely. Then suddenly Haku perked up.

"Actually, it looks like I have one more duty to perform for Zabuza-san." Haku said and took off to where Kakashi was about to shove a chidori into Zabuza's heart, but hit Haku instead.

"Why Haku? Why would you throw your life away for me?" Zabuza growled as he looked at Haku's now lifeless body.

"Because he thought there was no other way to live, you asshole." Naruto said panting slightly as he reached Kakashi's side.

"Heh, well good he was just doing his job as my tool. He meant nothing to me anyway." Zabuza grunted, trying to hide the truth from the Leaf Ninja which Kakashi caught but of course, Naruto was completely oblivious.

"You mean to tell me that Haku meant absolutely nothing to you! How could you possibly feel that way? Are you that heartless!" Naruto yelled.

"Naruto, don't." Kakashi said while placing a hand on his shoulder and pointing to a now tearing up Zabuza.

"Well what do we have here? It looks like your accomplice is now dead and you failed to kill the bridge builder." A new voice said as he kicked Haku's body.

"Gato." Zabuza growled.

"Well it looks like I won't be having to pay you after all. I was planning on having you both killed any way's, but I seriously wanted to kill that Haku brat myself. You two were a bit too much money." Gato said, and now the group notice the band of bandits behind him.

"Kakashi could you throw me a kunai? My arms are now useless but allow me to do this one last service, it appears as if I have no reason to continue fighting you guys." Zabuza said grimly as he stared down Gato. Kakashi threw him a kunai already figuring out what Zabuza was planning to do which was killing Gato and as many thugs as he could.

End Flashback

"Wow, that's one crazy mission Naruto-kun." Lee said with stars in his eyes.

"I heard that you guys went on a C-rank turned A-rank mission, but I never imagined you had to fight one of the ex-seven swordsman, what a drag." Shikamaru said lazily.

"Yeah, it was pretty hectic but I'm glad none of us died or received too serious of injuries." Naruto said.

"So, have you figured out how we are going to get to Land of Whirlpools yet?" Chouji asked curiously.

"I have an idea that might work. Just follow me." Naruto said as he took off across the bridge.

They crossed the bridge rather quickly and made their way to a certain person's home, and Naruto knocked on the door.

"Coming!" A women's voice called and when she opened the door she was shocked. "Naruto!? Is that you? Where's Kakashi, Sakura and Sasuke?" Tsunami asked curiously, not yet knowing about Sasuke's deflection from the village and Naruto's banishment.

"Hehe, that's kind of a long story. Is Tazuna around by chance? I would like to ask him a favor." Naruto asked.

"As a matter of fact, he is. He is in the kitchen drinking as usual unfortunately. But please come in, I was about to make dinner. If you all would like to come in and join us you are more than welcome, it's the least I can do for Naruto." Tsunami said with a smile.

"Thank you that would be awesome!" Naruto said as a loud rumble could be heard coming from his stomach which caused everyone to laugh a little.

'Some things never change, do they?' Shikamaru thought to himself while shaking his head.

"Hey dad! Inari! Look what the cat dragged in!" Tsunami said happily as they walked into the kitchen, and Inari came down the stairs.

"Naruto is that you!? What happened to the shrimp that helped save the Wave?" Tazuna said light heartedly.

"Yeah, it's me and I guess I finally hit a growth spirt." Naruto said laughing a little.

"Where's the rest of your team and sensei? Sakura, Sasuke and Kakashi right?" Tazuna asked finally realizing that Naruto wasn't with them.

"Well that's a long story that I guess I will have to tell. But this is Shikamaru, Chouji, Neji, Lee, and Hinata. Guess it would be best to tell what happened now while everyone is here." Naruto said grimly.

And with that Naruto told them of how he was banished from the Village Hidden in the Leaves due to injuring Sakura when he entered Tailed Beast Mode and told them that he was the Jinchurike of the Nine Tailed Demon Fox. He told them how he was the son of Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki and that he wanted to go to the Land of Whirlpools.

"Well I am sorry to hear that that happened to you, and who would've thought you were the Fourth's son and a Jinchurike? And how do you plan to get to that island? It is nearly impossible with all of the whirl pools surrounding it." Tazuna asked.

"I was hoping you could help us out with that, or maybe you knew of someone that could." Naruto asked hopeful.

"Well I do know someone that's sailed there before and he made it back in once piece. I guess I could talk to him in the morning to see if he's up to the challenge once more. Like I said its extremely difficult to get to from what I've heard." Tazuna said while rubbing his chin thoughtful.

"Thanks, Tazuna. It would really be a big help. I really want to see what I can find out from there, and to train to become strong." Naruto declared.

"No problem but no promises okay? I need to go talk to the guy first." He replied.

"Do you guys need a place to stay tonight? If not you're more than welcome to stay here for the night. It might be a little tight but I'm sure we can work something out." Tsunami invited kindly.

"That would be great, thank you so much Tsunami." Naruto said with a slight bow of the head which is odd for him.

"It's really no problem at all, like I said earlier it's the least I can do. Well let's eat!" Tsunami said with a smile spread across her face.

After dinner

"Thank you for the meal!" The group said as Lee and Hinata decided they would help out with the dishes.

"I am going to go out into the woods to train for a little bit, I need some alone time sorry guys." Naruto said with a small smile.

"Everything alright, Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked softly.

"Yeah, I just need some space to think about everything. I won't be gone too long so don't worry about me." Naruto said as he turned and left. He made his way out into the opening where Kakashi had taught him and his team the tree climbing exercise.

'Well I might as well start reading the scroll on the shadow clone jutsu my father left, to see if I'm missing anything that might be helpful.' Naruto thought to himself. He read through the scroll and it finally realized how big of an idiot he was.

'How did I not know this!' Naruto thought to himself as he read the note that read:

'I learned something new on this jutsu, it appears as though anything my shadow clone learns, I will learn as well. It is a shame that I don't have a high enough chakra capacity to really use it as a training method.'

'But I have the chakra capacity! That's it! That is how I will master adding an elemental affinity to the rasengan. I read in that scroll that the rasengan is an incomplete technique that my father didn't have the time to be able to do such a thing. Well here goes nothing, might as well see what my affinity is.' Naruto thought to himself as he channeled some of his chakra into the paper and it split in half. So, I have a wind nature, just like him.' Naruto thought happily to himself, referring to his father.

"Well time to get training! Shadow clone jutsu!" Naruto called to no one as he created around 200 clones.

"I want half of you to work on cutting the leaf that I read about. Just try to channel wind chakra into the leaf and it should cut in half. I want the other half of you to work on doing the rasengan in one hand. That way if I can do that, then it will probably be easier to incorporate the wind chakra into the rasengan later on." Naruto commanded.

"Then what will you be doing?" A clone asked.

"I will keep reading some of these scrolls father and mother left behind to see if I can learn something new." Naruto decided, and he picked up the scroll on wind chakra nature once more.

Well what do you guys think? This will follow rise of the village hidden in the sky a little bit more closely in the future don't worry. I just thought it was rushed the last time around, and it didn't make sense how Naruto was strong out of nowhere I realized. So please continue to read, follow, favorite and review!