Hey guys first let me start off with apologizing for the long wait for the update, like I said I'm in school all day and I work till I close every day of the week. I only get a couple minutes of down time every day.

Well I had already had my plans on how this story was going to go, but I got an idea that will change the whole outcome of this story, the first two chapters will stay the same so that no need to make any changes. And to who reviewed saying that guy was the green beast instead of the blue beast of Konoha, I googled it and basically he is called the green beast in the manga but the blue beast in the anime (apart from when he opens the last gate, where he is then called the red beast). Pretty annoying with all the names if you ask me -_-. If you anyone finds any other mistakes, please let me know so I can make the correct changes. Also if anyone is willing to become my beta for this story please PM me it would be so grateful! Lord knows this story needs it hehe. So let the Story begin…

Somewhere near the border of Hi no Kuni 19:00 hours

The sun was beginning to set on the horizon, and a crisp summer breeze passed through the trees. If one was to look close and hard enough they could see what looked like a shadow jumping from tree to tree. The shadow made a quick turn and continued on its' way in no particular hurry. Before long in ended up in a small town, the shadow made it way toward a small post that simply said 'accessory shop'. The shadow was now visible, it had the figure of a man standing at about 6ft tall draped in all black clothes and carrying a large black scythe on its' back. The shadow, now identified as a man, made its' way inside and was met with an average looking man, with brown hair and brown eyes.

"welcome to the accessory shop! Are you interested high grade ninja tools?" the man asked

"no thanks, I'm here for Iraki" the black figure said.

The clerk looked at him before saying "follow me". He walked to the back where he opened a secret door that lead to a basement. When both men made their way down the stairs and were met with a small office of sorts. A rather large dark skinned man with long blue hair tied up in a ponytail looked up from where he was sitting. "state your business with me" he said.

"I've brought you a nice little bounty, hope you have the funds" the black figure stated. He brought out a small scroll and opened it up, a head popped out and was laid out on the desk facing the man known as Iraki.

Iraki whistled before saying "that's quite the catch you got your self, Raiga of the seven swordsman of the mist, borderline S-class ninja, bounty at 65million added 15million for each sword". Iraki brought out a brief case and opened up one of his drawers, where he began to bring out piles of money and transferred them to the brief case. He handed it to the man before asking him "you know the new edition of the bingo book came out a week ago and you've made quite a name for yourself huh? They don't even have your name but your ranked an S-class ninja, with no known village affiliation no stats on jutsu or fighting style, a run on sight order unless S-class ninja or above and a bounty of 120million. If you don't mind me asking what is your name?" The figure looked at Iraki before letting out an awfully eerie laugh and saying "you can call me death, make sure you put that down as my name on the book. Now if there is no other business I will take my leave". 'death' looked at Iraki and seeing no signs of a continued conversation, promptly left the shop.

'now that Raiga is taken care of I think I'll see what 'he' is doing death' thought to himself before going on his journey.

Konohagakure no sato 8 Am

Naruto made his way to his seat in the back of the class room, hoping team placements would go as quick as he wanted them too. Before long all the students were in their respective seats waiting for Iruka to begin. Iruka looked at his students and gave them a smile before saying "first off I want you all to know how proud I a…" It was at this point Naruto tuned him out. The thought about the events that had occurred a week ago… his meeting with the Hokage hadn't gone too well but that wasn't important now, what was on his mind now was Danzo, the man had taught him a lot ever since he was placed under his tutelage, but the most important thing Naruto learned was that he couldn't be trusted. He was following his orders now but sooner or later he needed to find a way to get away from him, Naruto figured Danzo already knew that he didn't trust him but kept that part to himself for both their sakes.

"Team seven will be Naruto Uzumaki, Kiba Inuzuka and Ino Yamanaka. Team leader will be Kakashi Hatake" Naruto was a little less then pleased at learning that kiba was on his team, he wasn't dead last, only because Shikamaru did not care and had no intention of caring about his actual grade at the academy, but Naruto knew better, Kiba was not the smartest and his personality was something Naruto did not want to be around. Ino on the other hand was a whole different story, he hadn't talked to her in at least a year and he wanted it to stay that way. If Danzo saw that he had someone close to him… 'I'd rather not think on it too much' Naruto thought.

Ino Yamanaka was happy and annoyed at her team placement. On one hand she had an annoying and lecherous mutt to deal with, on the other hand she had someone she could call a 'friend' but she hadn't talked to him after he basically disappeared from her life about a year ago. She really didn't know how to feel about this whole ordeal.

"team 8 will be composed of Hinata Hyuga. Shino Aburame and Choji Akimichi. Team leader will be Kurenai Yuhi. Team 9 is still in rotation so team 10 will be Sasuke Uchiha, Shikamaru Nara and Sakura Haruno. Team leader will be Asuma Sarutobi…" Iruka continued to announce team placements. When he was done he said "your Jonin instructors will be here to pick you up soon."

As the last word left his mouth the door was open and a beautiful woman with black hair and red eyes wearing what looked to be white bandage wrappings walked in and told team 8 to follow her. Before 10 minutes all that were left in the classroom was team 7.

"you might wanna make yourselves comfortable, Kakashi has a reputation of being late" the scarred Chunnin told the trio of Gennin hopefuls before leaving the classroom as well.

Kiba let out a loud groan before swearing and going on about having an always tardy sensei. It then that Ino decided to approach Naruto for the first time in what seemed like forever. 'what should I say? What if he just ignores me? Does he even consider us friends anymore?' The questions plagued her mind before she decided to calm down and just try and strike up a conversation.

"Hey Naruto long time no see, huh?" The Yamanaka heiress asked the other blonde of the group.

"Hey Ino, yea it has been" Naruto responded.

'well so much for breaking the ice' Ino thought to herself. "where have you been for the last year… that is if you don't mind me asking". She asked.

"I've been around… I assume your father told you that I had someone else teaching me, right?" Naruto responded with a question of his own.

"yea, but he wouldn't go into details. I thought you would at least come and visit every now and again though." She stated.

"the less people I had ties with the better… my new sensei isn't very fond of close connections and let's leave it at that." Naruto told her.

Before she could inquire any further, Naruto interrupted her and said "I know you're there Kakashi, you've been there for the last five minutes, how about you stop hiding and come out."

Startled at being caught red handed Kakashi had no other options so he made his presence known. "Yo" he said in a non-chalant way.

'It seems Naruto is exceptionally well at sensing, that's surprising specially, because of the inhuman amount of chakra that flows through his body' Kakashi thought to himself.

"My first impression of you guys, is that you suck! Meet me on the roof top in 5 minutes." And with that he disappeared via shunshin.

"Who the hell is this guy! He gets caught and then tells us we suck! Jonin sensei my ass! I'll show him who sucks" Kiba went on with his rant before Ino decided to let him know that Naruto had already gone ahead and that they should probably be on their way. It was a short walk to the rooftop and when they got there they saw an annoyed Naruto and a giggling Kakashi reading an orange book called 'Icha icha'.

When they both took their seat next to Naruto, Kakashi spoke without ever breaking his gaze from his book "well now that we are all here, how about we all get to know each other, you flower power, you're first".

Ino was not amused at being called 'flower power' but was about to begin except she didn't know how to. "Umm… well I don't know how to start, do you think you could give us an example sensei?" she asked the older ninja.

A sigh was heard from the Jonin before he said "my names Kakashi Hatake. My likes are… well you're not old enough to know that. My dislikes… yea…, and my hobbies consist of well you know, my hobbies. My dreams for the future are in progress".

The group of Genin hopefuls looked at him with unamused faces before Ino decided to speak up "My names Ino Yamanaka, my likes are gardening, spending time with my friends and lo"

"Ino Stop. Don't give him more information then what he gave you. All we know about him is his name, same goes for you Kiba" Naruto interrupted Ino before she could finish her sentence. Ino looked at him before giving a nod and going along.

'hmm Naruto seems to have a good grasp of ninja basics; I guess I can thank Danzo for that' Kakashi thought to himself. Well since you guys won't talk I guess I'll just go on explain your exam for tomorrow. Again Kiba was the first to respond "exam! We already passed the exam!". Kakashi looked at before saying "yes you passed the exam to see if you are eligible enough to become a genin, but it's up to the Jonin instructor to determine if you guys are even worth teaching, with an exam of his or her own".

Kiba and Ino groaned out loud before Kakashi continued once more "that being said, I want you three to meet me at training ground seven at 6 Am. And don't eat breakfast you might just throw up" and with that Kakashi left the bewildered genin.

"geez what is up with that guy? He seems so lazy and unwilling" Ino spoke up.

"yea like what the hell! I already showed I can become a genin, why more freakin exams!" Kiba yelled out in frustration.

It was at this point Naruto decided to speak up "Guys if you haven't noticed, he's already testing us. He gave us no personal information all he really said was his name and that he's testing us tomorrow. Something else that bothers me is that if he's testing tomorrow why wouldn't he want us to eat breakfast, a ninja should always be prepared for any scenario. Things aren't adding up. I suggest you guys take the precautionary measures for tomorrow". Naruto left as soon as the last words were out of his mouth.

Seeing as it was just Kiba and her left, Ino decided to go on her way as well. Saying a quick goodbye to Kiba out of courtesy, she headed towards her clan compound.

From a distance the figure known as 'Death' was gazing upon the group and as soon as he saw them begin to disband, he took it as his sign to do the same.

The next morning, training ground 7, 8:37 Am

"holy fuck! I'm going to beat the shit of our worthless sensei, we've been here for over 2 hours! And still no sign of him" Kiba was beyond pissed at the moment. Today had not been a good day for him and it was still early in the morning. It all started when he woke up and found out Akimaru had a little 'accident in his sheets the night before. Then when they were on their way he just happened to step on dog shit. And once he got to the training ground he found out his sensei was yet to show.

"calm down Kiba at least it could be worse" Ino commented trying to keep herself calm as well. Naruto was the only one that seemed to be the calmest out of all of them, but that seemed normal the guy hardly talked and when he did it was always short sentences, they had yet to see him in action as well but they figured he was bound to put up a good fight against his sensei.

"Yo" Kakashi made his presence known shortly after. Kiba wasted no time and tried to tackle him with Akimaru close behind. Without even blinking Kakashi moved to the side and flipped Kiba over on his back resting his foot on the genin hopeful.

"why are you late?" Naruto asked with an even tone.

"Hm? Oh sorry I must have lost track of time you see a black cat ran in front of me when I was making my way here, so I decided to take the long route to avoid any misfortunes" Kakashi said in a bored manner. The group sweat dropped at Kakashi's crappy excuse.

"now let's being with the test, shall we?" he asked the group got serious and nodded. Gaining the response, he wanted Kakashi continued "you see this test is quite simple, all you have to do is take these two little bells away from me". Kakashi brought out two little bells and tied them around his waist. "oh by the way, remember how I said not to eat breakfast? Yeah well the one who doesn't get a bell will be tied to a tree and will have to watch as the other two eat the lunch I brought. Then they will be sent back to the academy, where they will have to go through another year there before they can graduate once more" Kakashi looked on with glee at the shocked faces of his little genin wanna be's. "come at me with the intent to kill, if not you might up getting hurt, and let the test commence" as soon as he said this Naruto and Ino immediately scattered into the forestry. Kiba and Akimaru were the only ones left at the clearing.

"you know I got a lot to pay you back for" Kiba said.

"but we've only known each other for a day" Kakashi told the pre-teen. Kiba wasted no time in charging at Kakashi again. Kakashi for his part just brought out his book and began to read. Kiba went into his taijutsu style and tried to land a hit on Kakashi, but all his moves were parried with ease. Kakashi did a little hand sign and trapped Akimaru in a genjutsu, the little pup immediately began to run around in circles.

"What the hell did you do to Akimaru?" Kiba yelled at his teacher.

"oh that? Not sure it looks like he's just chasing his own tail" Kakashi said not even bothering to look up from his book. Kiba saw his chance at the bells and immediately went to grab them, when his fingers were about to graze them Kakashi teleported behind him and did a squat. Before he could react, Kakashi yelled out Hidden nin style: A thousand years of death! Kiba felt a growing pain in his rectum and was soon seen flying out into the woods.

Ino watched the 'fight' between Kakashi and Kiba if it could be called that. She couldn't help but laugh at Kiba's misfortune. She heard a rustling of leaves behind her, she was immediately on guard with a kunai in her hand. "it's just me Ino, Naruto" Naruto stated coming out into view.

"I think I know what Kakashi is up to" Naruto told the other blonde.

"really? Do tell" Ino asked.

"he's trying to pit us against one another, seeing as there are only two bells one of us will have to go back into the academy. Seeing as Kiba looks to be the weakest out of us three, he's hoping you and me will team up against him. But you see that's the weird thing, I remember Iruka talking about how ninja cells were always composed of 4 people, the jonin instructor and 3 genin"

Ino listened to what the other blonde was saying and the wheels in her head began to spin. 'Why would Kakashi make two of us work together if there can only be teams of 4?' Ino thought to herself.

"the goal here isn't to take the bells away from him, it's to work together. Therefore, once we manage to take the bells from him his will pass us and have a four-man team" Naruto told the thoughtful Ino. "we have to get Kiba in on this before it's too late and he comes and begins to search for us." With that they took off in the general direction where Kiba was launched off to.

"Stupid good for nothing sensei's, what kind of perverted move is that any ways?!" Kiba spoke to himself after rubbing his hurt rectum. *rustle *rustle Kiba heard the noise behind him and before he could react the was a Kunai held at his neck and a familiar voice spoke "Kiba shut up and don't make any noise, me and Ino have come up with a plan to take the bells, but we need you to participate as well if we all want to pass this exam".

Kiba could only nod and waited for Naruto to tell him what the plan was to take the bells, once it was explained to him Kiba asked "so why do you need to me to help if you and Ino are just going to take the bells and get promoted to genin anyways?".

"because Kiba the goal of this exam isn't to actually get the bells, the goal is to demonstrate that we can work together even though this is the first time we have to with each other" This time it was Ino that took it upon herself to clear Kiba's confusion. An understanding look passed through Kiba's face before he said "Alright! Let's get this show on the road then!" He whistled twice and Akimaru popped up out of nowhere ready to follow Kiba's lead.

'now where are those three? I think it's time to go searching for them' as soon as that thought registered through Kakashi's head he had to dodge a precise slash from a scythe. "my, my, what would have happened if I hadn't dodged that, Naruto?" Kakashi asked the dark clad genin.

"you'd be dead, that's all there is to it" with that Naruto went on the offensive again, his scythe disappeared from sight and he did a leg sweep on Kakashi. Kakashi dodged but he was unprepared for incoming form of Kiba. Making a quick decision, he grabbed Kiba by the leg at the last second and threw him at Naruto. Naruto dodged Kiba and did and uppercut on Kakashi, the jonin swatted it away as If it was child's play and kept reading his book.

Noticing that his teacher wasn't taking him seriously Naruto decided to up his game once more, he brought out his scythe for a second time and made his way towards the jonin. When he was close Naruto shunshined behind him and did and upward slash at the jonin's back hoping to catch him of guard. Kakashi noticed this and brought out a kunai to block the incoming blade. Seeing his chance Kiba decided to join the fray once more, this time with Akimaru in tow. Kiba threw a pill at the small dog, Akimaru saw it and ate it. Instantly the small pup began to grow and change into a humanoid figure, when he had finished transforming, the dog now resembled an exact copy of Kiba.

Fang over fang Kiba yelled, both him and Akimaru began to spin rapidly and sped off towards Kakashi like rockets. The jonin put his book away for the first time as they were nearing. Jumping away from Naruto, he did a round house kick which he hit Kiba straight in the head, knocking him off course. Naruto was quick to react and yelled out Wind style: great breakthrough, the attack hit Kakashi dead on but it did minimal damage, if that, and sent him flying in the air. Almost instantly Naruto was under him and brought his scythe around getting ready to slice him, Kakashi brought out his kunai but when the blades made contact, Kakashi's kunai was sliced in half as if it were made of butte. The jonin didn't couldn't dodge the incoming blade aimed at his vitals, so he shifted his body weight to the side. The blade made a deep gash left forearm, where it began to bleed profusely. Seeing the ground approaching they separated and landed on opposite ends.

Kakashi flexed his left arm and a bout of pain shot through it "geez Naruto, I thought you wanted to become a genin, how do you suppose you do that if you don't have a jonin instructor anymore?" Kakashi asked.

"You said come at you with the intent to kill, besides a jonin as yourself shouldn't be bothered by a superficial wound now would they?" the pre-teen jinchuriki responded.

"fair enough" Kiba immediately came rushing in once more, Kakashi had, had enough of this little cat and mice game with him so he just decided to take him out of the picture. Earth style: head hunter jutsu, next thing Kiba knew both him and Akimaru were up to their heads underground.

"Now it's just you and me Naruto what do you plan on doing?" in the distance Kakashi heard Ino fire of her family's signature jutsu. Being quick on his feet Kakashi did a substitution with a wandering rabbit nearby. When the jutsu landed it hit the bewildered animal and Kakashi was left with complete control of his body. "well there goes your trump card, guess you guys are going back to the academy" Kakashi stated with glee

"not so fast" Naruto said holding up the bells he had retrieved from Kakashi. "wha… how did you? When did you take those?" Kakashi demanded. "simple when you were sent flying by my jutsu and I slashed at you with my scythe; meanwhile, I used my other hand to replace your real bells with some clones I transformed to look like them earlier" Naruto said with a smug tone. As if on cue a popping noise was heard from Kakashi's waist, letting them know that the clones had dispelled.

"now that you have the bells who will you give the other one to?" Kakashi asked the genin bringing out his ever present orange book once more. "cut the crap, everyone here knows the real motive behind the test was to get us to work together" Naruto said with a no bullshit tone. Ino came out of the bushes at that moment not looking to happy at being stuck inside of a rabbit's body for a while.

"well in that case you all… pass" said a deflated Kakashi earning a loud yell of happiness from both Kiba and Ino. "now someone help Kiba get unstuck" Kakashi said turning his attention to the stuck genin. Naruto created two shadow clones and they began to dig him up.

Once they dug Kiba out, Kakashi got a serious look and told his genin to gather around, they did as told and gave Kakashi their undivided attention. "Now If there is anything that you will learn from me, make my next words your top priority." He received nod from his three genin and Akimaru, seeing this Kakashi continued "as a ninja you will come to face very difficult situations, and you will have to make even more difficult decisions. But always remember this those who abandon their mission are trash, but those who abandon their friends are worse than trash" he finished a bit forceful hoping to get the message across.

"well now that, that's over with meet me here tomorrow at 8:00 am so we can go get our first mission". With that Kakashi left and the genin of team seven followed suit shortly after.

'It seem you've grown quite a bit Naruto, but you still have to get exponentially stronger for what's about to come' Death thought to himself before taking one last glance at the team and disappearing in an instant.

One month Later

It had been a month since Team 7 had officially become a team and they had been doing non-stop D-rank missions. One could assume they were beyond tired of said missions. As they were coming back from their 2nd of that day Ino voiced her thoughts "so Kakashi-sensei, explain to me again why we have to do all these chores?".

"they're not chores Ino, this missions help you guys work coherently as a team" Kakashi told her once more, while making their way towards the Hokage's tower.

"right… so how does cleaning dog crap, painting fences and searching for a stray cat help us work as team?" Ino continued to try and pry answers from Kakashi.

"well you see it's more complicated than that, you have to look underneath the underneath. Oh would you look at that we're here already" Kakashi said not wanting to continue the conversation, after all D-rank mission were a pain in the ass for everyone, including the sensei's…unless you were Kakashi of course. Because if you were him you just happened to go MIA a little while after said missions were commenced.

"team seven reporting after another successful mission" Kakashi's voice was heard as they entered the Hokage's office.

"Ah, Kakashi-kun your team looks like they get the hang of these missions, they seem to be progressing quite nicely if I do say so myself" the Hokage leaned back in his chair before igniting his pipe. He inhaled a long deep breath before exhaling and speaking once more "you see your team is ahead of both team 8 and team 10 in the amount of missions you have completed. For all it's worth I'd like to say, good job" the Hokage stated with a proud smile on his face.

"Hokage-sama I would like to request that we take a higher ranked mission" Naruto spoke in a low monotone voice, stating more than requesting.

"Naruto… I suggest you quite down this instant" Kakashi said in a low growl more than a voice. "you are a ninja and as such I expect you to act like one and not bitch and groan over something so trivial as mission rank" He gave Naruto a disapproving look, meanwhile Naruto himself looked a bit angry at being called out like that.

The Hokage noticed the tension between student and master so he did his best in trying to dissuade it. "hm… I see your point Naruto your team seems like they can handle a simple escort mission, nothing to dangerous and you all will get some much needed field experience, so how about taking a C-rank escort mission". Kakashi looked at the Hokage with curious eyes seeing that he will give his team a C-rank mission after Naruto decided to speak up, but he chose not to comment on it.

"Yeah, I just want to see how I have progressed recently nothing more, thank you for taking what I said into consideration" Naruto said Curtly.

"Very well" the Hokage said before closing his eyes and saying "Alright Tazuna come into my office for a second".

Hearing his name called, Tazuna made his way into the Hokage's office and was met with a group of kids no older than 12 or so, a dog, a man that had half his face covered and his head band covered his left eye and of course the Hokage himself.

"Tazuna meet team seven, they will be escorting you to your destination"

"these brats? The girl over here looks like she might cry if she breaks her nail, the mutt looks better than this kid with the tattoo's on his face, and looks like we have a cat lover in here as well" Tazuna said paying no mind to the kids reactions at what he said.

Before anyone could move, Naruto had his scythe position just under Tazuna's head. "if you know what's good for you, I suggest you shut up. We will escort you to your home but if you say some crap like that again, don't think there will be any consequences".

The Hokage coughed a bit getting everyone's attention, seeing that all eyes were on him, the first thing he did was give Naruto a threatening glare, seeing this the whisker faced team let the man be.

"Tazuna, you may have paid for you mission, but I will not sit here and let you insult my ninja" he said while adverting his glare over to the bridge builder. "now do you accept them as your escorts or do you want a refund?"

"Ye..yeah I guess they can escort me back home" The bridge builder said now looking a bit weary at team seven specially Naruto.

"Well team it looks like you got your first C-rank mission, meet me at the front gates at 7 sharp tomorrow morning and pack for 2 weeks, that includes you Tazuna" Kakashi said getting a bout of 'Hai's' from his genin.

The next day 7:00 am

Team seven was at the gates waiting on Tazuna so they could get on their way, before long they could see a shadow in the distance and as it came closer it revealed that it was Tazuna. Once he was at the gates they immediately set out.

They walk at a slow pace so their client wouldn't get tired but at this rate they wouldn't to their destination till the next day! They had adopted for four-point formation around Tazuna so they could keep watch on all angles, Kakashi was leading with Ino and Kiba on the sides and Naruto at the back.

It had been over 4 hours and team seven was getting a little more than bored at just walking with nothing to do, they had switched positions several times and now it was Naruto Leading with Kakashi at the back, they were about to stop for lunch in a few minutes but they wanted to get as far as they could, stepping over a water puddle Kiba decided to speak up "I think we should stop here I'm feeling kind of hungry" Akimaru agreed with him giving a small bark at the mention of lunch.

"Yeah this seems like a go…" Kakashi was cut off by a kick to the face, getting blown back into the forest. The attacker followed after Kakashi leaving the team alone for the time being.

Naruto already had his scythe at his side and said "You should come out it's pointless hiding I know where you are". A low chuckle was heard, then the same voice said "well, would you look at that? Someone has a little bit of talent, kinda sad that it will go to waste after today" the new attacker dived toward the old bridge builder but was intercepted by Naruto mid-way both their weapon locked at a stalemate before both ninjas jumped back.

"Kiba, Ino, Akimaru protect the Tazuna at all cost, I will take care of this slump" Naruto told his team before charging at the attacker.

The chunin that attacked the group had a headband with a line running through the insignia of 'mist'. Blocking Naruto's attacks the rouge ninja decided to speak up "you and your team should get out of here, my partner has already dealt with your jonin-senei. I feel merciful today so I will let you guys leave, in exchange for the bridge builder that is. Or do you wanna see how your mettle stacks up against one of the demon brothers of the mist?" he said before trying to rip Naruto to shreds with his gauntlet.

Naruto dodged out of the way and spoke up "If you value your life I suggest you do what you told us to. I won't hold back any longer". The mist-nin took a step back and gave out a full hearted laugh, not bothering to take Naruto seriously he lowered his guard while he laughed. That was he only opening Naruto needed. Before anyone could blink Naruto was behind him already bringing his scythe upward with incredible speed. Shock was plastered on the missing-nin's face, as his head fell off of his body and landed on the floor.

Naruto flicked his wrist to get the blood off his scythe and looked at his team. Everyone looked mortified at seeing a human being die in front of them. Kiba promptly ran to the side and threw up what little he had in his stomach, Ino was just standing there looking back and forth from the body to Naruto. Tazuna was sweating bullets at seeing a grown man get decapitated, by a preteen.

It was at that moment that Kakashi made his presence known "my, my Naruto that's quite some speed you got there, you weren't even that fast when you fought me a month ago, and good job at taking care of that little nuisance. Ino, Kiba good job at protecting Tazuna, but I suggest you get used to death as soon as possible, in our line of profession, that's all there is… death. And Tazuna, would you mind explaining why you had two B-rank missing-nin here to capture you?"

Tazuna looked beyond nervous at the moment, thinking on what to say, he knew that his next choice of words could be make or break for him. "well you see, My home has been overrun by this tyrant, named Gato. At first he said he was a business man looking to invest in our lands hoping to make his shipping industry larger by exporting the large amounts of fish that our fishermen caught. It went well for the first couple of months but then he brought in an army of his thugs and everything changed. They ransacked our village, robbed from our houses, raped our women, and who ever tried to stop them was murdered. We were left in shambles. Once he had the populace under his control Gato sealed off any other form of business and who ever tried to stand up against his was tortured and killed in the town square for all to see. The only way to stop him is to build a bridge that connects our island with the mainland. That's where I come in, I'm the one who is building the bridge but most if not all my workers have been scared away by his thugs so I needed someone to protect me and my workers while I finish the bridge, there is not much work left we can finish it in a week we just need protection. The reason we didn't pay for a higher ranked mission is because we have now money, all the village could scrounge up was just enough for a C-rank. Can you please find it in your heart to help this poor nation out?" Tazuna finished his tale and looked at Kakashi with sorrowful eyes.

"no" Kakashi said simply.

Tazuna was shocked that after what he had said, he had been rejected. "You put my students lives in danger the moment you lied about the mission, that I cannot forgive. Also lying about a mission is a felony and you will be charged as much the moment we get back to Konoha" Kakashi said making his way towards the bridge builder.

"wait! Kakashi-sensei, don't you think we can look it over and help him out? After all we are their last hope" Kiba said getting Kakashi's attention. "Kiba did you pay attention to anything I just said? He lied about mission rank and he endangered your lives who knows how many other ninjas are out there just waiting to ambush us at this instant?" Kakashi said trying to shoot down Kiba's act of heroism.

"Kakashi-sensei I think Kiba is right, besides if push comes to shove, I know you can take out any ninja that are after Tazuna" this time it was Ino who voiced her opinion on the matter. Hearing this, Kakashi growled and began to think to himself. Turning to Naruto he asked "what do you think about this? I will not continue if I don't have everyone's consent".

"I don't like it, I honestly we should just go back and lock him up but… you are considered one of the strongest jonin in the hidden leaf and I do want to get some more combat experience, either way I'm fine with it" Naruto said. Kakashi looked up at the sky before saying "we'll have lunch then we'll… finish our mission, but if things start to look bad we're high tailing it out of there".

"Thank you! Thank you so much! Our Nation is in debt to you!" the old bridge builder said giving his many thanks.

After finding a suitable place for lunch, the ate and were steadily on their way towards the land of waves.

Well chapter 3 is done! Again my apologies for the long wait! Team seven is on their way to the land of waves but what lies ahead? To those of you wondering why Naruto was able to beat his opponent so fast, with him being a genin, well fist off I never got into all of his training remember. And second off his opponent underestimated him and left his guard open, something that should never be done. And No Naruto won't be Frikin' god like from the get go, just because he has some training, I don't want to let too much slip out but in terms of power Naruto right now can be classified as low to mid chunin. Furthermore, I would like to say again, that if anyone is willing to beta this story please be my guest it would really be appreciated, just hit me up with a PM and we'll go from there.