Fate of Light and Dark
Chapter 3: C-Rank-Mission: Wave
"Why is this Cat so fast? Or in other words, why is that cat speed rivaling a Jounin ninja?" Naruto sighed. "And how many time has it escaped already?"
"With this... about 2796 times" Kakashi replied, reading the infamous "Icha Icha Paradise".
"EHH? You kidding" Sakura looks shocked.
"TORA-CHAN! I was worried!" A woman hugged her cat TOO tightly.
"Why don´t we just let him escaped?" Naruto whispered, if he was the cat he would tried to escaped too. Seriously what´s up with her hug?
"We can´t. She is the Wife of a Lord and you don´t want to know, what she had done with those who failed this job" Kakashi whispered back with a shudder.
The Hokage sighed, "Now... Kakashi´s Team 7, your next duty is... Hmmm... Babysitting an alder´s Grandson, shopping in the Neighboring village, and help with the potato digginin."
Naruto sighed, "Can´t we do a C-rank mission this time? I mean we already done enough D-rank mission..."
"Listen Naruto... You are just a rookie, everyone starts off with the simple duties and words their way up!" Iruka scolded.
"Wait Iruka, Team 7 already finshed 27 D-ranks mission in only two weeks. And all of the constituent were truly pleased with them, maybe we should give them a C-rank mission this time" The Hokage smiled.
"Hokage-sama..."
"And we have a perfect one for you, it´s a protection mission of a certain individual! Please come in" The Hokage summoned.
As the door opened, a drunk old guy was revealed, "What´s this? They´re all a bunch of Super brats. Especially the shortest one with the super stupid-looking face. Are you really a Ninja?"
"I´m 12... I´m still in my growth period..." Naruto whispered, you could tell he was very angry.
`It´s the first time I saw him THAT angry...´ Everybody in this room; including The Hokage, Iruka, Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi; thought exact the same thing.
"Well I am the super expert brige builder Tazuna, I expect you to provide me super protection until I get back to my country and complete the bridge." Tazuna grinned.
Entrance of Konoha
"Everything set? Than let´s go" Kakashi announced.
"Hey.. Are you really sure, that I am safe with this shorty?" Tazuna asked, very doubtfull about Naruto.
"Don´t... call... me... a shorty..." A dark aura spread around Naruto.
"Uhaa, I think we found his weakpoint" Sakura whispered to the others. Kakashi and Sasuke sweatdropped, though they have the feeling, it would be bad to use that against him.
-Hours later-
On the way to the Wave Country Kakashi explained the Five Great Shinobi Countries and also about the Five Kages. Of the countries scattered about this Ninja world, five are considered to be the most powerful and influential of them all. These are the Land of Earth, the Land of Fire, Land of Lightning, the Land of Water, and the Land of Wind. Each represents one of the five elements (earth, fire, lightning, water, and wind, respectively) and each is ruled by a Kage.
"The worst hideout I ever saw..." Naruto suddenly interrupted.
"Naruto..?" Sakura wondered what he meant.
Naruto smirked as he throw a Kunai aiming the puddle in front of him. Suddenly the puddle turned into two people avoiding the Kunai.
"W-What?" Sakura widened her eyes.
"Didn´t you noticed? Think about it, it hadn´t rained for days and still there was a puddle? Very fishy.." Naruto pointed it out.
"Idiot, we could suprised them..." Sasuke sighed.
"What are you saying...?" Naruto smirked, suddenly Naruto puffed into a smoke and Sasuke dissolved.
"Eh..?" Tazuna and Sakura widened their eyes.
"Shadow Clone and Genjutsu..." Kakashi said.
"...Didn´t you agreed of the plan?"
Both Naruto and Sasuke were behind one of those strange ninjas and knocked them out.
"Good job, Naruto, Sasuke" Kakashi praised them as he tied the two unconscious Ninja.
"N-Naruto.. Then the one who walked with us since departing from the village was a clone?" Sakura asked,disbelieving.
"No.. Before we set, I send some of my clones ahead. To study the territory, since this is the first time we left Konoha. It wouldn´t hurt to know a bit more of our location. And last week, I noticed how my clones memory flow into me, when the Clone puff away, so I could perfectly use them for that. And after noticing the obviously pudding, I switched place with my clone with "Kawarimi no Jutsu" Naruto replied.
"Then how come Sasuke-kun knows about the plan?" Sakura asked, a bit disappointed to be left out.
"Not really.. I noticed how he switched place and as he throw the Kunai at the puddle, I replaced and hid myself with a Genjutsu. The real Naruto noticed that. So we agreed through glancing, that we get one for each other" Sasuke said.
`Planning this.. only by a glance...´Kakashi widened his eyes. `Their teamwork is good... Though Sasuke won´t admitting this´
"Well nicely planned, but don´t you think it were better to let them attack? We didn´t know their target" Kakashi said.
"Don´t worry, actually I thought the same, but right after noticing this puddle, one of my Clone memory gone through me... After all.. thanks to that, I know the location of one of my clones for replacing. And I can clearly say, that their target were Tazuna" Naruto glanced to him. "I guess you should explain us, why they are after you."
Tazuna looked away, feeling a bit ashamed.
Kakashi sighed, "Our mission was to simply protect you from thieves or gangs... We haven´t heard that there are Shinobi after you. Now this has become at least a B-rank mission."
"I-I-m sorry... I will explain...First... Do you know the man with the name "Gatou"?" Tazuna asked.
"Gatou? You mean from the Gatou Company?" Kakashi answered.
"Yes... Officially he runs a large shipping company.. But it isn´t important, well it was about a year ago when he set his eyes on the Wave country...Through money and violence he took control of the country´s shipping industry... Gatou now has a monopoly on all business traffic in the country... The only thing he has to fear now is the completion of the bridge" Tazuna explained.
"I see.. since you are the bridge builder... You are of course his number one target" Naruto cut in.
"So those ninja were hired by this Gatou..." Sasuke said.
"But I don´t understand why didn´t you hire better ninja if you knew that other ninjas were after you?" Sakura asked, a bit worried now.
"Well the country is super poor... Even the Feudal Lord has no money, and of course we don´t have money either... So we have not enough for the expenive B-rank mission... But don´t worry about it, If I die my cute 10 years old gradson will just cry for a few days" Tazuna laughed. " Oh yeah my daughter will live a sad life hating Leaf Village ninja forever, but it won´t be your fault. Not at all." he continue to laughed.
Kakashi sweatdropped, "Even then, we can´t just let some unexperienced Genins doing a Job that may cost their life"
"But still.. I feel bad for them, let´s continue the mission, Sensei" Naruto smirked.
"Same for me" Sasuke agreed.
"Ehh? Naruto? Sasuke-kun?" Sakura widened her eyes, just a second ago she was relieved that they will break up this mission. Tazuna was also looking suprised at them.
"... Are you sure?" Kakashi asked.
"Well you saw our performance, I think, we are good enough" Naruto grinned.
"... What about you, Sakura?" Kakashi glanced to her, actually he is really impressed about Naruto and Sasuke, they may can handle this, but only Sakura is worrying him.
"Ah.. Um..." Sakura hestitated, but suddenly Naruto leaned at her and whispered, "Sasuke-kun will protecting you".
"Yes, it´s alright, Kakashi-sensei! We can handle this!" Sakura eyes beamed.
Kakashi sweatdropped at her and Naruto made a secret sly smile facing to us readers.
"Boy... I´m sorry about my behavior earlier... You are really amazing for a shorty" Tazuna grinned.
Naruto turned to him with a really scary smile, a black aura sprouted behind him, "It´s okay... Just... don´t.. call.. me... a... shorty..."
"Ah.. Right..." Tazuna back a bit off.
"Come on let´s go!" Naruto smiled to the group, but you can cleary saw his anger.
Kakashi, Sakura and even Sasuke made a small note in their mind: Do NOT call Naruto a shorty! NEVER!
After hours they finally reached the Wave country, with a small ship that they across the sea.
"Amazing.. It´s actually beautiful for a poor Country" Naruto said, looking around. Sakura agreed, while the other shrugged it off.
"Don´t you want to send your clones to study the location?" Sasuke asked.
"Good idea, but I will do that later..." Naruto glanced, throwing a Kunai, aiming a bush, that moved a bit. A white rabbit came out of shock.
"Naruto! What did yo-" Sakura was about to scold him, but cut off by a shocking event.
"OMG! How cute!" Naruto beamed as he hugging the rabbit.
"Eh..?" Sakura sweatdropped at this randomly.
"He´s cute! Isn´t he!" Naruto grinned, rubbing his cheek against the Rabbit."Waaa~ So fluffy"
"..." They all looking at him in disbelieving eyes. Second weakpoint: Cute Animals!
"Though... You noticed this too, right, Kakashi-Sensei?" Naruto glanced to Kakashi, letting the rabbit go. Kakashi nodded in reply.
"What do you mean by this?" Sakura asked.
"I only saw those snow rabbit on pictures in books of the libary, they changes color based on the amount of sunlight and only in winter it´s colour are white... But don´t we have a different season now?" Naruto asked her.
"Spring..." Sasuke mumbled.
"That right, this is a rabbit that keep in cage for the purpose of Body switching... Like the attack from Naruto earlier... They are already her- GET DOWN" Kakashi suddenly commanded.
"Wh-?" Sakura jump in shock of his outburst. Naruto quickly kicked against Tazuna foot, so he lost balance and fell down and while doing that, he pulled Sakura foot, this made her forcefully to fall down, as a sharp Sword swirred above them, stucking against a thick tree in the end.
"Well isn´t that the copycat Kakashi? No wonder the brothers failed" A laughed could be heard, standing on the Blade that stuck into the tree.
"Well... Well..., if it isn´t the Hidden Mist´s Missing-Nin Momochi Zabuza..." Kakashi said in sweat, they got a troublesome opponent.
`Missing-Nin? This isn´t good...´Naruto thought, most of Missing-Nins are truly dangerous.
"This one is on a whole other level, I need to go all out against, so step back..." Kakashi commanded, lifting his headband that covered his left eye. A red eye is revealed, with three tomae around his pupil.
"What is this..?" Sakura widened her eyes, "A-A bloodline?"
" Sharingan (Copy Wheel Eye)..." Sasuke mumbled disbelieving. `How can that be? Only the Uchiha´s should have them!´
"Sharingan? What the hell is that?" Sakura asked, seeing the Sharingan for the first time in her life.
"Well... As you said earlier, it is a Bloodline... The Sharingan is one of the types of pupil that gives your power..." Sasuke answered, wanting answers from Kakashi.
"Hehe exactly... But what the scary thing is... This Bloodline can copy your opponent´s techiques once you this eye see them." Zabuza laughed it off, even though he is fighting a Sharingan user right now. "Well... This guy called the man who has copied over a 1000 Jutsu... Copycat ninja, Hatake Kakashi..." Zabuza smirked.
"He is smirking.. He is really confident about his own ability..." Naruto sweated.
`What´s going on? The Sharingan is a special physical condition that only appears in a select few members of the Uchiha clan...How can he have it? Could he be..?´ Sasuke thought.
"Now let´s end talking... I have to kill that old man" Zabuza said. "But it seems... I have to beat you first, Kakashi..."Zabuza jumping from his tree (Of course sticking his Sword out of it) and landing on the water.
"Ninpou... Hidden Mist no Jutsu" Zabuza said and disappeared.
"He´ll come after me first. Momochi Zabuza... As a member of the Hidden Mist... He was known as an expert in silent killing...You will not even notice until you´re already dead... It´s not like I can control my Sharingan perfectly. So you guys should be carefully" Kakashi said calmly as a thick fog appeared.
"8 choice..." A voice smirked, an echo followed after, "Liver, Lungs, Spine, Clavical, Vein, Neck vein, Brain, Kidneyes or Heart... Which one should I go after...?
"Well... If I have the choice... Then none of them, we need those 8 organs..." Naruto laughed it off.
Sasuke, Tazuna, Sakura and even Kakashi look shocked at him. In this situation to be able to joke?
"Heh? Nicely said, boya" Zabuza chuckled, "Too bad I can´t grant you that."
Suddenly Kakashi gathered a lot of Ki inside him. Sasuke, Sakura, Naruto and even the none-Ninja Tazuna felt this huge impact from him.
`What an incredibly dangerous Ki! It feels like I´ll be killed if I make a single move. This could drive a person crazy! The intensity of a Jounin... It feels like my life is being sqeezed... I can´t take it... I´d almost rather die now and get it over with..´ Sasuke thought, not being himself anymore.
"Sasuke-kun... Don´t worry I´ll protect you guys even if it kills me. I don´t let my comrades die." Kakashi assured him with a smile.
With that Sasuke, Sakura and Tazuna clamed down a bit.
`If he died, how can he possible protecting us? Haunting the opponent as a ghost?´ Naruto frowned.
"We will see about that, if you can protecting them... " Zabuza smirked, standing in the middle of the group, consist of Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke and Tazuna. He was about to attack Tazuna with his sword. "It´s over!"
Kakashi was about to reacted, but there was someone faster than him.
A Kunai stuck between Zabuza´s eyes and blood flowed out like a waterfall. Naruto glared down at his opponent (Zabuza bended down to attack, making Naruto higher than him), having the Kunai in his left hand, while the other hand holding Tazuna back. He could reacted faster than Kakashi (because he was closer), before Zabuza could swing his Sword against Tazuna. Though the Sword was already near Naruto face by an inch.
"Eh..? Is.. it over..?" Sakura holding her breath.
"N-Naruto.." Sasuke widenend his eyes, Naruto could react while he is standing in fear?
Suddenly the blood turned into water, as well the whole Zabuza turned into water.
" Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu (Water Doppelganger)..." Naruto sweated. It was a close call.
"... I´m amazed, boy...I´m truly amazed..." The real Zabuza couldn´t believed what had happened, initially he sent his Clone to test Kakashi abilty... But this outcome, really caught him off.
Even Kakashi was suprised, he could made it in time, but that his Student could reacted like that...
"Now.. Round 2!" Zabuza attacked again, this time he aiming for Naruto. Naruto tried to block the Sword with the Kunai on his hand. But before Zabuza could attacked, he was take down from Kakashi, stucking a kunai in Zabuza´s belly.
"Don´t be naive Naruto! Your Kunai could never block those sharp Blade!" Kakashi scolded.
"Sorry, didn´t have many option left" Naruto defended himself, as he put himself and Tazuna to another location.
Again this Zabuza, dissolved in water as another appeared behind, cutting Kakashi in two halves, but Kakashi also disappear in water.
´Wha...? The Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu (Water Doppelganger) ? Did he copy it even in the mist?´ Zabuza couldn´t believe it.
"Don´t move!" Kakashi said, holding his kunai on Zabuza´s neck. "It´s over!"
Suddenly Zabuza just chuckled, "It´s over? Are you kidding me? There´s no way you can defeat me with your monkey-like imitations..."
"...but that was impressive of you... At that time(Note: As Kakashi said that he won´t let his comarades die)... You had already copied my Water clone no Jutsu... You had your clone say those words to attract my attention while the real you hid in the mist and watched me. Nice plan... but..." Zabuza said, as another Zabuza come´s behind Kakashi.
"Another clone?" Naruto narrowed his eyes. "His plan is very well thought out"
Zabuza´s prepared an attack with his sword. "I´m also not that easy..."
The Zabuza in front of Kakashi dissolved in water. "I was to naive!" Kakashi clenched his fist.
As Zabuza swung his sword, Kakashi dodged it. But Zabuza was already one step ahead and kicked at Kakashi face. But Kakashi could dodged that again and jumped into the sea.
"Foolish..." Zabuza grinned.
`What? this water is heavy... OH NO!´ Kakashi thought.
"Suiro no Jutsu (Water Prison Technique)" Zabuza grinned as the water swirred around Kakashi and trapping him in a prison of water.
"You may have been trying to escape to the water, but that was a big mistake. I now have you in my inescapable special prison" Zabuza smirked.
"Damn!" Kakashi cursed his own foolishness.
"Well Kakashi... We can finish things later... First I´ll take care of them..." Zabuza said creating another water clone.
Zabuza laughed, "Wearing forehead protectors and acting like real ninjas... But you know what? A real ninja is someone who survived numerous brushes with death. Basically... Once you´re good enough to be listed in my handbook... Then you can start calling yourself a ninja... You guys should not be referred to as ninjas"
"Why telling us that? We still in growth, so it´s clear that we aren´t famous yet... But know what, defeating you, will surely boost up our fame" Naruto grinned.
"..." Zabuza was speechless, this boy... Was so confident, this made him really piss off.
"Naruto.. You shouldn´t made him angry" Sakura trembled.
"He is a guy, who made a mistake, if he got provoken" Naruto whispered back. "Sasuke, Sakura.. This fight could be very difficult if we won´t work with each other..."
To be continue
Sorry for ending here, but I needed time to form a plan how to work out the next Chapter/Fight, but I didn´t want you to wait, so I put the chapter already up. Though, I can already tell that you want to kill me, because of that Cliffhanger xD I will reply to your Review both of this fic and the other, after I finishes Chapter 4.