A/N: Once again I thank all of you who have favorite'ed the story, put it on alert list or reviewed it
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Chapter 3: Demons in the Mist
The day after
Kakashi knocked on Naruto's door, ever since two days ago he had suspected that the boy had found out the secret of his parents' lineage, though he was not part of the assassins' brotherhood, he was a friend who know to a certain degree some of their secrets, he agreed with their goals but he felt that if he worked with them directly it would interfere with his duty as a shinobi of Konoha, he still to this day did not know how Kushina-sama and Minato-sensei were able to balance both lives and still have time to date and have a family.
When Naruto answered the door he was surprised for only one second at who it was. "Yes, Kakashi-sensei, do you need anything?" he asked.
"Actually yes Naruto I came to ask you a very important question in private if you please" answered Kakashi.
"Ok, come inside Sensei, and make yourself comfortable" said Naruto as he led the Jounin into the Apartment.
The first thing the Jounin noticed when he got in was that the apartment itself was completely bare, which came to enforce the suspicion he had about the boy, that is if the mark on the belt was not enough, this would also confirm that it was no coincidence or some random crest the boy came up with. Sitting down he looked at Naruto wondering how he would begin the talk.
"Have you ever been to the Namikaze compound?" he started.
"Yes, three years ago sensei" answered Naruto, the question though unpredictable did not surprise Naruto, much, he knew that Hatake Kakashi was a student of Namikaze Minato, meaning he might have some knowledge about the assassin order, also meaning that there was no need to lie to him. He noticed Kakashi relax a bit as he exhaled a breath that he had held while Naruto answered the question.
"Naruto, are you going to carry on in your parents' footsteps?"
"Yes, that is the plan"
"Then I will tell you this" Started Kakashi "I was your father's student and a friend of the order, I still know some contacts that might help you getting in touch with surviving members, however, I do advise you to make a name for yourself and the brotherhood you form, since you are the heir to the Uzumaki clan you will end up carrying the burden of becoming the grandmaster of the entire order not just your own brotherhood"
"Kakashi-sensei, would you be willing to join the order?"
"No, at least not now, I will always help you, unless of course you become an enemy of Konoha, though I guess with your dream of becoming Hokage as well I need not worry, for you seem to love this village. Though you not asking me how they died means you already know; do you mind if you tell me when did you find out?"
"About the Kyuubi? I found out a few days ago when Jiji told me; he said that since I became Genin I should know about my parents because some people will see the similarities and also that the Kyuubi might get loose if something happened during a mission to set it off, so he told me"
Flashback
After having lunch at Ichiraku to celebrate, Naruto and the Hokage went to the Hokage's house; he wanted to discuss something important with Naruto. When they arrived the old man made sure to lock all doors and windows in order not to be interrupted and placed seals of silence as to make sure that their discussion is not overheard by any outsiders.
"Naruto, the reason I want to talk to you is your parents" started the old man.
"I know who they are Jiji, Uzumaki Kushina and Namikaze Minato the fourth Hokage" interrupted Naruto.
"How did you find out?" asked the elderly man surprised.
"I found a diary in the Namikaze Compound that had a message from my mother to me, she said just in case she does not make it"
"I see, but I doubt you know about the reason she feared death"
"No she did not say"
"Do you know of the nine bijuu?"
"Yes, the nine strongest demons, the strongest of which, the Kyuubi attacked Konoha twelve years ago on my birthday and he was defeated by my father"
"Well, yes, that did happen, however that is not the whole story, first of all you have to understand that the bijuu are dangerous creatures that we cannot allow to roam freely, and that in order to bind them we need people to act as their jailors, they are called Jinchuriki and I am sorry to say that your mother was the Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi. During your birth someone forcibly removed the Kyuubi from your mother and took control of it, causing it to go rampage and attack the city, you father, in order to contain the damage and stop the Kyuubi decided to seal the demon, with your mother in her final breaths and him using the seal there was only one option for who he has to seal the demon into, and thus he died sealing the demon into his child wishing that the village will see him as a hero, it does pain me to say that it has not happened."
"It's ok Jiji, I understand their feelings and why they can't, I am a reminder of their loss, if I want them to treat me as a hero, then I have to show them that with my own strength. By the way thank you for telling me about that" said Naruto.
Flashback end
"So you know then, well, that is good to hear; by the way the Hokage does not know about the order and I think it is better if you keep it that way" Stated Kakashi.
"I noticed, he mentioned nothing about the order"
"Also, I think that it is best if you ask him for your father's estate, it would be easier for you to live there instead of coming back here every morning pretending to be living here, also it would save you some rent money" said Kakashi with a smile shining in his eye and hidden behind his mask.
"I think I will, do you think you can come with me to make that request?"
"Sure thing kiddo" answered the masked Jounin and with that they were off to the Hokage's tower.
Hokage's office several minutes later
"Hokage-sama, I think that it is time to return to Naruto what is rightfully his. His family estate would help him financially and would reduce the problems he faces with vandals since it is secured with seals that prevent any with hostile thoughts towards the owner of the house or any who live there" started Kakashi.
"You make a strong point Kakashi, but wouldn't that attract unwanted attention to the boy like Iwa?" asked the Hokage.
"The only time the boy can be targeted is when he is on missions, and unless we are betrayed by someone high up, no one will know, plus we will change the name from Namikaze to Usumaki so that any visitors who see the house would think that some members of the Uzumaki clan who survived the attack on their home village now live there, since the Namikaze Family is no more, however when Naruto turns of adult age, he will be able to, if he sees the need to, change the name back to Namikaze or simply state what his relationship to the fourth is"
"Hmm… I think that Idea would work, however Kakashi I want you to live there too as a chaperone, this way the council will not have any excuses they all know the relationship Naruto has with the fourth, so they can't refuse" said the elderly Hokage. "Oh, and Naruto I want you to be wary of Danzo, he has been trying to turn you into a weapon since the Kyuubi was sealed into you."
"I understand Jiji" answered the boy.
And with that Naruto finally was able to live in the place that was filled with his parents love.
Fast forward few days later, mission handout office
Naruto was holding a cat by the nape of its collar; he was looking at it apprehensively; this was the tenth time in four days that team seven had to catch that demonic beast and it was starting to get on his nerves, he could not stand it anymore, if he had to catch it again one more time he would inject it with a poison that would make it look like it died from natural causes, that thing was not an innocent being, he had decided. It appeared that the rest of the team agreed with him on that point; if Kakashi was not going to ask for a higher rank mission then he would, he knew they were ready for a simple C-ranked mission at least; he could go on A-ranked ones but he knew his teammates would be hard-pressed to handle B.
"Hokage-sama might I suggest giving my team a C-ranked mission, they are ready for one" stated Kakashi.
"Kakashi-san, they are still children and I know their skill level, D-rank should be enough" said Iruka.
Kakashi glared at the teacher and started "When they were your students maybe, but I am the one who judges their level now and I am the one who decides if they are ready or not"
"Kakashi is right Iruka, they are growing and training hard" started the Hokage "I have an escort mission that I would like to send your team on. Bring Tazuna in" he told the Chunin guards.
One guard left and then returned with a drunken man carrying a sake bottle, he took one look at the team in front of him and started saying "You expect these kid…" he stopped midsentence when he noticed the crest on Naruto's belt and then said "they look promising"
Both Naruto and Kakashi noticed the reason for his change in behavior and decided to talk to him in detail about it.
"Team, we will meet up at the gate in two hours, make sure you have everything ready for a month long journey, understand?" he told his team.
As the other two members left to their homes to get ready, Kakashi and Naruto took the bridge builder with them to what now is referred to as the Uzumaki compound.
"Ok Tazuna-san, care to tell us what this is about?" started Naruto.
"I am a bridge builder and a friend of the order, I was going to ask for the help of one of the brotherhoods but the Rafiq in Nami, was taken out, I don't think it was intentional but with no way to contact the brotherhood I decided to take this matter to the Konoha" stated Tazuna.
"So tell us what happened" Said Kakashi.
"Gato, the shipping tycoon decided to take Nami as his own city, as you know Nami is a city surrounded by water, thus nothing can get into the city without the ports, and Gato controls them, charging extremely high prices and smuggling drugs and weapons in, in defiance I am building a bridge and am in need of protection from him and his men in order to liberate our city from his tyranny."
"I understand the situation, as an assassin it is my duty to help you as a friend of the order" stated Naruto.
"And as Konoha shinobi it is our duty to carry out a request we accepted to the end no matter what" finished Kakashi.
"I really thank you two for that" said Tazuna, and with that said the two men headed to the gate while Naruto gathered his equipment and the Items he needed for the journey.
Konoha gate, meeting time
The three Genin were at the gate a few minutes early and while Sakura was talking excitedly to Sasuke, it was their first mission outside Konoha; time had passed and the meeting time came, they were shocked to see Kakashi arriving with Tazuna on time for their departure.
"Ok team, Lets head out" he said in response to the blank stares he was receiving from his students.
On the road to Nami, few hours later
The small group of five had headed towards wave looked like a standard escort mission, well if the Jounin of a standard mission would be reading a dirty novel then yes very standard; and while walking two members of the party noticed a small puddle of water on the dry dirt road, the other three remained oblivious to the event. All of a sudden two ninja wearing the Kiri forehead protector jumped at the group one throwing his chain around Kakashi ripping him to pieces in the process and ran towards the bridge builder, the other ran towards the two Genin frozen beside the VIP. However they never made it the one who attacked Kakashi stood still with a kunai to his throat, the other only felt himself fall to the ground and the last thing he felt was a stab piercing his heart killing him instantly.
"Rest in peace" said Naruto as he removed the hidden blade from the Chunin's body.
"MEZO" shouted the remaining Kiri ninja looking at his fallen brother as he is killed effortlessly by a Genin.
"You should have thought of the consequences when you decided to attack leaf shinobi with that obvious trick" said Kakashi ending his misery.
Sasuke and Sakura Looked at Naruto shocked at what he had done while he simply moved his hidden blade in one swift slash cleaning the blood off it and returning it to its holder acting as if it was the most natural thing in the world.
Kakashi signaled the group to continue moving; it took the two Genin and Tazuna a few moments to recompose themselves before they obeyed the order of the Leaf Jounin.
When the sun set, they made camp and Kakashi took first watch while his students rested, when he was certain that Sakura and Sasuke were both asleep he signaled Naruto to follow him both leaving a shadow clone each to guard the camp.
"Naruto, it was you who carried out the Mizuki assassination right?" started Kakashi.
"Yes, I found out he was spying for Orochimaru and decided that I should take him out before he could cause any damage, I allowed him to steal the scroll and then killed him in order not to compromise the brotherhood, and he was far from innocent" answered the blond assassin.
"I see; ok listen, while we are in wave I want to give you a mission as a friend of the order, find and assassinate Gato and as many of his goons as you can before the mission is over, you can consider it an A-rank mission, I know for a fact that Gato will send a Jounin after us since his Chunin have failed"
"I accept the mission, Sensei"
"I am asking you this for one reason; since I am a Konoha shinobi I am limited by laws on the other hand your creed frees you from them" said Kakashi.
"Nothing is true, everything is permitted right?" said Naruto smiling.
Afterwards they two headed back to camp, they had not noticed a pink haired someone following them.
After arriving at the shore the next day and taking the boat to the other side, the group was now walking towards Tazuna's house when Naruto all of a sudden threw a kunai towards a bush, from there a white rabbit jumped to the road frightened, noticing that the rabbit is white Naruto and Kakashi reacted quickly both yelling "Drop Down" Naruto pulling Sakura and Tazuna down while Kakashi did that to Sasuke who was next to him.
Just as the group was flat on the ground a huge sword came out spinning towards where Tazuna's head would have been, and when it embedded itself in a tree behind them the demon of the mist appeared standing on the handle.
"So you were able to detect me" Stated the Kiri Jounin.
"The demon of the mist, Momochi Zabuza, It's a pleasure to meet you" said Kakashi.
"Oh, Kakashi of the Sharingan, It is an honor that someone of your caliber as heard of me" said Zabuza.
"You two stick to Tazuna and guard him" Kakashi told Sasuke and Sakura, the Kunoichi looked around for Naruto at that instant but he was nowhere to be seen, again he had disappeared when she had lost track of him for a fraction of a second. "Leave Zabuza to me" finished Kakashi.
'That last order is probably for Naruto' thought Sakura.
In the shadows of the trees surrounding the area Naruto had blended in and was watching what was going on with his eagle vision, he noticed two things, first of all, the number of people present was not six but seven, the seventh watching from the top of a tree ready to act; the second thing was that both the hidden figure and Zabuza were shining brightly, they were not read, and he knew they were not his target or any of his goals, so he opted to keep on watching.
Kakashi unveiled his Sharingan and began fighting Zabuza, copying Jutsu or attacking with kunai; this caused Sasuke, who had watched Kakashi using a Sharingan when he had not even awakened his, run at Zabuza attempting to strike him with a Katon Jutsu. This caused Zabuza to attempt to trap the boy in a water prison however Kakashi got there in time to push the young Uchiha away and become imprisoned instead.
In order to save Kakashi Naruto had to move out of his cover quickly throw a throwing knife at the Zabuza holding the water prison. Zabuza noticed the attack directed at his head and moved his head just enough that the attack would miss it. Just as the knife missed it suddenly changed into Naruto with a poof of smoke throwing yet another knife at Zabuza, this one forced him to move his entire body in order to avoid getting hit by it freeing Kakashi.
"What a mistake I have made to make me end the water prison Jutsu on your sensei" said Zabuza.
"It was not a mistake on your part, Naruto here forced you to let go" answered Kakashi "you cannot win against both of us, give up" said Kakashi, while activating a Chidori in his right arm getting ready to strike at Zabuza; Naruto noticed the other shining person throw something and he attempted to run towards Zabuza, when all of a sudden two senbon embedded themselves in Zabuza's neck killing him.
"I thank you two for distracting him, I have been on his tail for months this is the first time that he has shown an opening and I took it" said a Kiri hunter ninja as he appeared in front of the group "Now I will be taking his body thank you again"
Naruto could not understand what he was seeing, still in eagle vision he was seeing Zabuza's body still glowing.
Sasuke was growling, 'how could I the last of the Uchiha just be dead weight on my team' he thought.
Sakura went over to him and helped him up.
'At least I'm not as useless as she is' he thought cheering himself up a bit.
Thirty minutes later they arrived at Tazuna's house. Kakashi was tired out from using the Sharingan too much that all the strength he had left only allowed him to continue the journey to the bridge builder's house. As the door opened he collapsed on top of a beautiful woman who appeared to be in her late twenties, she was about to scream when she noticed that the person on top of here was only unconscious and not trying to do something inappropriate towards her, looking up she noticed her father.
"He is exhausted, get him to a bed in order to rest" he told his daughter.
"Yes father" she said as she called Sakura and Sasuke to help her carry Kakashi to a spare room where futons were arranged.
"Tazuna-san, can you point me towards the place most of Gato's men go to off duty?" asked Naruto.
"Most of them go to Captain's end the only bar still open, rumor has it that the owner was threatened to sell at cheap prices to Gato's henchmen and was allowed to buy alcohol at a reduced rate in order for him not to close down, apparently Gato needed a place for his men to drink and relax" answered Tazuna.
With that answer Naruto left the house and went towards the specified bar, he noticed that as soon as he left someone was following him, using his eagle vision he determined that the person was friendly and someone he had to talk to, so he stopped and called "come out Sakura-chan, I know you were following me."
After a few seconds the pink haired Kunoichi came out from behind a tree.
"What do you want Sakura-chan?" he asked.
"Naruto, I overheard you talking with Kakashi sensei in the away from the camp yesterday, I want you to train me" she said.
"Why do you want to be trained?"
"Because I don't want to bring our team down; Kakashi sensei is a powerful Jounin, you were able to kill a Chunin easily and ambushed a Jounin while making it look easy, Sasuke-kun is a genius and I am the only one without anything special, so I want to train to be good enough to stand amongst you."
"Are you sure you want me to train you? You do understand that if I do then you are a part of my brotherhood and you must not tell anyone outside the brotherhood, the order or friends of the order about it" he asked again insinuating the importance of what he was saying.
"Yes" she answered with determination shining through her eyes.
"I understand, then, your training will start once we get back to Konoha, come to my house and we will begin then; Kakashi-sensei will start some shinobi training once he wakes up so be ready for it, I have a job to do now so I want you to head back to Tazuna's house and tell no one of our conversation, guard Tazuna, I should be back late tonight, and will probably be like this for the entire week" he watched Sakura go back towards the house before he started moving again, 'she has a bright future as an assassin, she was able to follow Kakashi-sensei and me without being noticed by either of us' he thought.
Before arriving at the bar Naruto performed a Henge turning himself into an adult mercenary, walking into the bar he ordered a drink, made sure to allow half of it to spill on the dirty floor and took a seat on an empty table at the end of the bar; when he was seated he opened his senses to his surrounding and started picking up information that could be useful in locating Gato's base.
After midnight Naruto returned to the builder's house, noticing Kakashi had woken up, Naruto went to him, to tell him of his findings so far, he needed someone to talk to in order to help him arrange the information he had gathered.
"Naruto, I just remembered something, Zabuza might still be alive" said Kakashi.
"Are you certain?"
"Mostly, remember the hunter ninja and his method of killing, plus he took the whole body instead of just cutting off the head"
Naruto blanked out for a second because something had just clicked in his mind, but he cannot go through with that till Zabuza returns to attack them so he pushed the thought aside for now.
"Sensei, can you train them enough so that they can help you against Zabuza, I think if you help them with Chakra control they will be able to provide some backup."
"I'll see what I can do, probably will push them until they are able to perform tree climbing perfectly, then they will have enough control to help with the fight and guard Tazuna san."
And so with the start of the following day Kakashi started training Sakura and Sasuke while Naruto went to gather information, when Sasuke asked where Naruto was, Kakashi simply said that he had done this training before and is now scouting the area looking for where Gato's base could be in order to avoid surprise attacks.
Sakura was driven to finish the exercise, though she was able to master it and Kakashi sent her to guard Tazuna she asked her sensei for training she could do while guarding the builder while he worked. Seeing her dedication he gave her some taijutsu exercises she can do that will not distract her from guard duty.
At the night of the sixth day Naruto was finally able to gather enough information and deduce where the base was, he sent a messenger hawk to Kakashi and headed there to finally carry out his mission.
Next morning
Naruto was resting in the forest between Tazuna's house and the main city; he had carried out his mission and killed Gato, but strangely only few henchmen were in the base, he killed the ones who were there and decided to head back to Tazuna's and guard him, he needed to see Zabuza and that hunter Ninja. However his body was tired and needed rest so he decided to rest for a short while before he continued the trip.
When he woke up and decided to start moving towards the house he heard the voices of two men heading in that direction he followed the voices and found that they had already gotten into the house and taken Tsunami, Tazuna's daughter hostage, while entering through stealth, he noticed Inari, Tsunami's son attacking the kidnapers, when the other one (the one not holding Tsunami hostage) caught the child, he faced the man with a glare that almost scared the mercenary but he did not let go.
Just then two throwing knifes where thrown getting buried deep into both men's heads.
"Are you two ok" asked Naruto as he appeared in the room.
"Yes" they both answered, Naruto noticed Inari on the verge of tears so he held the boy.
"It's ok, you did great, and you're a hero who was able to protect his mother from the bad people" said Naruto.
With Inari holding up, Naruto decided to leave in order to get to the bridge in time before one of the five people he wanted to keep alive died.
At the bridge
Naruto Looked at the situation, Sasuke was trapped in the Ice mirrors Jutsu, Sakura was fighting off a water clone of Zabuza, and was actually holding her place; Kakashi was fighting the real Zabuza and was using Chidori in his arm. Naruto decided that the one who needed his help first was Sasuke, who even though he had awakened his Sharingan he was still unable to fight the hunter ninja.
Naruto ran towards the Ice mirrors and decided to destroy them from the outside; just as he was arriving Sasuke fell down falling unconscious; he formed two blue orbs in his hands and attacked two or the mirrors.
"Rasennengan" shouted Naruto as he shattered both mirrors forcing the hunter out of his Jutsu.
Just then a spear was thrown towards Zabuza going through his chest; he looked at the source and found Gato's men.
"What are you doing you idiots we are on the same side" he screamed at them.
"We were ordered by Gato to kill you off, you and that bitch of yours" answered the one who had thrown the spear at Zabuza.
In a blind fit of rage because of the name Haku was called Zabuza attacked the henchmen Kubikiribouchou swinging above his head and he was screaming "Insult me all you want but insult my boy, Haku, and I will kill you all" and with that he proceeded to kill most of the mercenaries, those who were trying to escape were met by an angry mob and were clobbered until they lost consciousness and were all rounded up. "Bring me Gato I want to kill him now" Screamed Zabuza blood squirting from the mortal wound in his chest.
"Zabuza-sama, please, don't hurt yourself anymore, any more of this and you will die" said Haku crying.
"Don't worry Zabuza, Gato has already been killed" said Naruto as he took out a scroll with Gato's head in it.
When Zabuza noticed the crest on the belt of the young boy in front of him, he got down on one knee and said "I am sorry brother, forgive me" and he raised his left hand's ring finger, where branded on it was the assassins' insignia.
'So that is why' thought Naruto then he said "why do you ask my forgiveness?"
"I broke the creed, I killed innocent people, and now that I am dying I have two requests from you" said Zabuza.
"You are forgiven brother, what are your requests?"
"Take Haku, he is like a son to me, I picked him up and trained him while I was in mist, most of the brotherhood there has been routed out, and in the end my attempt to remove the evil Mizukage failed. He was never inducted into the brotherhood but I trained him and taught him the creed which he had followed to this day, so please take him and allow him to join your village and your brotherhood."
"I understand; I will do as you ask" said Naruto.
"No Zabuza-sama don't leave me, please" said a crying Haku.
"My dear boy, take Kubikiribouchou and become a great assassin, live by the creed and you will have made me very proud and very happy." And with those final words Zabuza closed his eyes for the final time.
One week later
With team seven fully recovered and the bridge finished, the group with Haku now tagging along with Kubikiribouchou on his back said their farewells to the people of Nami and headed back into Konoha.
"Inari what do you think we should call this bridge?" asked Tazuna.
"We should call it a name that means hope to us, how about the Great Zabuza Bridge?" asked Inari.
"Hmmm… I like it" answered Tazuna.
OMAKE
While team seven and Haku were walking back to Konoha they stopped for a short rest at a dango shop, after drinking their tea and having dango Haku and Sasuke needed to use the bathroom, as they headed in to the bathroom Sasuke stopped and said "Um… Haku-san, the ladies' room is through the other door."
"I know Sasuke-kun, why would I go to the ladies' room?" asked Haku; then suddenly it dawned on both of them what the other had meant and said.
Till the rest of the week both boys were utterly depressed; Haku for being thought of as a girl yet again, and Sasuke for being attracted to a boy.
A/N: ok thanks for reading so far I hope you enjoyed the wave arc of this story.
Now the members Naruto is going to recruit are the following:
Uzumaki Naruto
Momochi Haku
Haruno Sakura
Yamanaka Ino
Tenten
Hyuga Hinata
Those I am trying to decide whether to include or not are:
Inazuka Kiba or Aburame Shino (one of the two)
Rock Lee
There are also some characters that were part of the Uzumaki brotherhood before Minato's death and when they return will become part of Naruto's:
Jiraya
Senju Tsunade
And I am still thinking about a secret character from the Naruto verse to add
If there are any suggestions on members to recruit please go ahead, only requirements are that they should be from the Naruto-verse, they could be OCs but still in the Naruto-verse.
Slices out
