Over the past few days, Naruto and his team had performed a few D ranked missions gaining enough missions to even qualify to take a C ranked. Which brings us to our current time and location. Naruto was standing before this Drunk of a Man claiming to be the worlds best bridge builder and blah blah blah. Naruto could care less. He wanted a challenge to test his skills again. He had finally mastered being able to open up the first and second gates and had a bit of an understanding of the Edo Tensei technique he copied but he had a lot of work to do on the Shiki Fuujin technique. He had requested a scroll on sealing and was supplied with the basics. His Kage Bunshin read over the scroll every night helping him memorize things with it. This caused Naruto to come across an astounding discovery. When his clones learned something like how to use a technique, he could use it himself. He knew they could gather information but now, the possibilities were endless. He could have them learn the Edo Tensei in a few weeks or even a few days. But he would have to do it on a week or something off. Nrauto knew his potential was now unlimited.
A few days ago
Naruto had just finished channeling chakra into a slip of paper he got from a teacher at the academy. He had asked about chakra natures and was suprised when one of the shinobi actually answered and helped him. They told him to channel chakra into the paper which he did and it split in half. "Wind chakra...This could be useful in my training" he said to himself. He thanked the teacher and left the class room. He headed to the Hokage's tower and asked to speak with the Hokage about an urgent matter. His usual story. The receptionist already knew the code and let the young boy through. He knocked on the door and the Hokage allowed him in. "Naruto my boy, what can I do for you?" Hiruzen asked. "I was wondering if you know where I could get some scrolls on wind techniques. I've found out I have a wind element." Naruto explained. "Hm...Asuma is a wind type, he had a few scrolls a while back and I kept them around here some where..." he thought before going to a drawer and removing a few scrolls. "Here you go, a few C and B ranked Wind techniques. But you should seek Asuma out to learn a few wind training exercises." Hiruzen informed Naruto. Naruto nodded and took off to find Asuma.
Lucky for him, he was able to find the man out on a walk with Kurenai. "Asuma sensei, Hokage-sama told me that I could ask you for a few wind training exercises. Do you have any that you could teach me?" Naruto asked politely. Asuma thought about it for a moment then gave Naruto his apartment adress telling him to meet him there the next day. Sure enough Naruto showed up ready to learn and Asuma was happy to comply. Naruto got the basic idea of training and got used to it enough to understand what he was supposed to do. He finished the basic chakra training on his own which was to coat a kunai with wind chakra and increase it's cutting power. When Asuma had shown Naruto his trench knives and Flying Swallow technique, Naruto had asked if he knew where he could get chakra reactive weapons like his. Asuma gave him the name of a weapons shop and sure enough Naruto went to the shop. He was able to work out a deal with the Owner who was happy to make the young ninja a pair of claw's that were similar to Asuma's trench knives. The man told Naruto that they would be ready within a few weeks. Naruto thanked the man, paying in advance and taking the receipt. Naruto then went to the training fields to try and master his wind element. Naruto had the clones work on master wind element for the whole day. He himself meditated and cleared his mind so that he wouldn't get too fatigued from the training. He had learned that meditation and a calmed mind helped him adjust to the training better. He did the D ranked missions in the morning and did the Training at night with the clones. As Naruto realized it was time for them to get a C ranked mission as they had reached their qouta, he had his team of Kage Bunshin focus on being able to perform Edo Tensei. He had been using Shadow clones as the sacrifice and by doing that he knew one thing. He never wanted to be a sacrifice for an Edo Tensei. He knew it's inner workings inside and out, and all he had left was to figure out a way to control what ever he summoned. Naruto laid in his bed that night and began to think back on all the information his clones had gathered for him on sealing. He knew it'd be a long night.
Present Time Outside the Gates of Konoha
Naruto and his team had just set off. Naruto knew that there was other places far off but he had never been outside the village. He was taking it all in at the moment and seceretly enjoyed the time with his team mates. Things were going well so far until they passed a puddle. Naruto, Sasuke, and Kakashi noticed the puddle and knew that it didn't belong there. It hadn't rained in weeks. Naruto and Sasuke mentally preared themselves. Suddenly two shinobi appeared from the puddle and wrapped a chain around Kakashi. Naruto and Sasuke noticing that Kakashi had already performed Substitution new they could let loose on the men. Sasuke formed a few hand signs while Naruto created two Shadow clones. When sasuke finished his hand seals and released a ball of fire upon the two Naruto's first shadow clone thrusted his hands out and a gust of wind increased and fanned the flames to engluf the two Shinobi. This didn't happen as they both broke apart their chain and scattered out of the path of the combined technique. They made a rush for the bridge builder which was being guarded by Sakura. Sakura brought her kunai up to defend but the attacker was intercepted by Naruto who had caught the man's extended arm with his hands. Naruto clenched tightly channeling some of the foxes power to augment his strength enough to break the arm and pulled the man inward for a brutal punch to the face which knocked him out cold. Sasuke launched a vicious kick to the other shinobi stomache and elbowed him in the back of the head knocking him down and restrained him with ninja wire. Once they were captured Kakashi appeared and looked at the client. "Tazuna-San...I think it's time we talked..." Tazuna paled a little bit. These kids were good, and if they were that good he was terrified of how good their teacher was.
After Kakashi finished talking to Tazuna the team decided it was the best idea to help the Wave village out. They continued on their path until they got to where they needed to cross. They realized that it was a little misty out but none of them were worried about the mist. They kept their senses sharp worried about what would be in the mist waiting. As they reached the location, Sasuke suddenly sensed something in the bushes and threw a kunai barely missing a rabbit. The rabbit's fur caught Naruto as suspicious and his thoughts were finalized as Kakashi called for everyone to get down. A giant sword flew over head imbeding itself into a tree. A man then appeared on top of the handle and looked back at the group. "Well...well..well. I didn't know Kakashi became a baby sitter...This'll be fun." he said as Kakashi glared at the man. "Zabuza Momochi...what are you doing here." he asked just for conformation. He already knew someone must of hired the man and was formulating a battle plan based on the information he knew about Zabuza. As Zabuza spoke Naruto and his team crowed the bridge builder in a tight formation. Naruto was facing the direction of the bridge builder with Sasuke looking south east and sakura looking south west. Kakashi lifted up his head band revealing a Sharingan as Zabuza formed a few hand signs and the mist thickened. Naruto pushed his hands out and pumping a lot of chakra blew away the mist. This allowed Kakashi to track Zabuza's movements and stop his assault.
Kakashi used his kunai to clash with Zabuza's sword, a feat which was impressive in itself speaking highly of Kakashi's strength. Kakashi then pushed off of Zabuza launching the kunai at the man then formed a few hand signs. The kunai was deflected by Zabuza's blade as Kakashi used the distraction to form a few Water Clones he copied from Zabuza. The Kakshi clone slashed through Zabuza with a kunai causing it to turn to water. Zabuza then revealed himself from behind a tree and with quick speed beheaded the clone turning it to water. Kakashi used this time to launch a fireball at Zabuza who jumped back on to the top of the water and began forming hand signs quickly. Kakashi copied it as quickly as Zabuza performed it and a vortex of water formed around the two and clashed into each other creating a large wave. Sasuke and Naruto watched the battle in awe and tried to focus on Zabuza who was lost in the battle himself. Kakashi made a small mistake launching himself next to Zabuza on the water who, after he launched a quick jab, leaned back while forming hand signs and thrusted his hands foward capturing Kakashi in the orb of water. "Well...looks like you've been slipping Kakashi." Zabuza said a little out of breath. The battle wasn't going how he wanted and he was forced to fight all out against the Jounin. If his mist technique had worked he could have formed water clones to help him get to this point. Kakashi looked at his students. "Take Tazuna and get out of here!" Kakashi called out to his students. Naruto thought for a moment and realized that if they ran, they'd just die any how. So Naruto did what he did best. He improvised. He formed a few clones and had one of them Throw a few shuriken to the right of Zabuza while the other formed his own set of seals. "Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" the clone said. This caused the Shuriken to turn into a wall of shuriken that would hit only Zabuza. Zabuza had to release his hand from the orb and move out the way or his whole left side would have been pelted by shuriken. This allowed Kakashi to set himself up right and face Zabuza head on again. Zabuza began to backpeddal. He had used up a lot of chakra. He was getting tired and Kakashi was on his last leg as well. He could risk going into a Ninjutsu war with the man with 1000 ninjutsu, but that in itself sounded suicidal. So he did what every great ninja to ever survive a battle did. He retreated. Kakashi returned back to Tazuna seeing as the hostile target had disengaged the client.
He placed his headband back over his eye and fell to a knee. "That...took a lot of chakra out of me..." he said while resting. He didn't over do it with his sharingan too much but he was close to drained. "Quick thinking Naruto, where'd you learn the Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique?" He asked. Naruto waved him off. "I recreated it after toying around with the Shadow Clone techniques. I can make shadow clones of a lot of different things." He said as if it was nothing. Kakashi was impressed. After helping Kakashi walk and Tazuna escorting them to the house(Oh what irony) they decided that rest was in order. They had made it to the location now all they had to do was protect Tazuna while he built the bridge. How hard could that be?
