Chapter 4

Time of Bane

Summary: Naruto made a chance discovery as young child, rising to become a powerful and respected figure… one who would be known throughout the lands, he would become a bane to all who opposed him, becoming a legend.

Helltanz's notes: This is chapter four, last chapter and the previous eluded to Naruto's events, some one brought up a very good point, but I will address that in the bottom of the chapter Author notes.

Naruto started training at age seven, starting under Itachi, with a few scrolls from the Hokage. Anyway that last section from the author's not it should have been instead of "or some one else from leaf," it should have been "or some one else not from leaf," but you should have figured that out from the rest of the sentence, anyway on to the story.

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Chapter begin

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Nami no Kuni

Sakura was occupied with watching over Tazuna at the bridge, and the bridge builder asks her where Sasuke and Tojo were. She says that they are training and Tazuna replies by asking her if the training is too hard for her. The pink haired kuniochi becomes angry and informs the bridge builder that she's guarding him because she did the best during the training.

Tazuna continues to works on his bridge, and yet another of his employees asks to stop working on the bridge for fear of Gato. They fear for their families. Tazuna however has decided that he won't quit.

He started this bridge believing that it would bring in resources to the super-poor country of Wave. He tells his worker that he doesn't have to come to work…

Once work has been finished for the day Tazuna decides to stop through town to get something on his way home for dinner. Sakura, having lived an extremely sheltered life, can't believe how poor everyone is. The stores barely have anything. Suddenly, a man sees Sakura's bag and tries to grab it.

Sakura felt that a man is touching her nonexistent lower assets so he, cough, punches him. Then, another one touches her and she was about to hit him but it was actually a small kid who begs Sakura for food on the street. She gives the kid a couple of pieces of candy.

Tazuna tells her it's been this way since Gato came. Everyone gave up hope, but if he could just finish the bridge, the city could return to what it once was.

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Nami no Kuni, the forest near Tazuna's village

Naruto glanced unconcernedly at the sky… "Another boring day on the plain of humanity." Stated the magic user iddilly carving a staff with a small knife. The blonde glanced at the rod. "Hmm. I haven't made an ice one in a while, speaking of ice that reminds me,"

The ball of sleek fluff tilted its head letting out a squeek.

"I should check on Tsuki, see how the country of the moon is settling in with its now improved ninja village." Naruto stated bored.

The large eyed blue rabit like creature nodded its head in agreement.

Naruto snapped his fingers causing a zombie to appear.

The odd little ball of fur jumped up to a higher branch hissing at the hulk of rotting undead flesh which was shambling in place.

The blond pointed the staff and blast of ice flew outwards, freezing most the ground. "Nothing like a tree's ability to soak up the sorrow of the land." Naruto sealed the staff into a scroll. "Best go check on Hatake's idiots, Murue."

The rabit creature nodded and scambered away.

Naruto sighed. "What a bore, can't wait to head home." He frowned, there was a lot of work to be done still, "May be I'll just go and kill Gato." The magic user paused. "May be later."

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Nami no Kuni, Tazuna's house

The two thugs, who were supposed to be good enough to serve as Gato's personal bodygaurds, smirked at Tazuna's daughter.

Inari sobbed quietly.

"The boss only said we need one hostage." Commented the bigger of the two thugs gripping his sword in one meaty hand.

His buddy shook his head, "You're so blood thirsty man you already carved up that fat pig in the woods."
"I know but practice is good right."

"Stop it if you harm him I will bite off my own tounge and bleed to death." Stated Tsunami.

The samurai reluctantly aggreed.

Naruto emerged from the wall looking like a ghost. "My what trash heap did you crawl out of?" The ghostly voice, was unconcerned as if he was simply watching the clouds move across the sky, but his voice radiated the feeling of a massacre, the calm before the storm. The blonde craned his head to glare at the two thugs.

"Back off we got a hostage." Stammered the first body guard.
His eyes narrowed, "You're talking to me." Naruto smirked revealing a pair of lengthened canines. "You seem to mistake me for some one else, my mission has nothing to do with Tazuna and his bridge my task is one of death."

The thug found a katana pierced through his chest, from the hilt rose vines began to grow consuming the body.

"What the fuck, What the hell are you?"
Naruto sneered kicking the vine covered corpse away from him, "The end through me lie the gates of hell."

The man ignited in a blaze of fire oddly not burning the floor.

"Such useless punks." Muttered the blonde sheathing the blade. "Not even worth being called canon fodder."

The rabit thing reappeared chirping excitedly.

"Murue chill,"

The blue creature chirped a few more times.

"Yeah I figured that Hatake and Momochi would go at it today," He remarked, "there nothing to worry about it."

The creature squeeked.

"Such a bother." Responded the blonde.

The blue fluff ball chirped.

"I am going there now."

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Nami no Kuni, Tazuna's bridge

Hatake Kakashi, son of Hatake Sakumo, panted, before noticing the temperature was decreasing, fast. 'took him long enough.' Thought the cycloptic sharigan wielder.

"My you certainly know how to get yourself into trouble." Stated the blonde appearing in his signature blue rose petals.

Zabuza swore inside his mind recognizing the blonde from the bingo book entry, maybe he shouldn't have been toying with Hatake so much.

"Well not that it matters this won't take long." He remarked unconcerned, "Hurry up and finish this Hatake, I am eager to return to my home, and I can't do that until you complete this obscenely boring mision."

Zabuza's eye twitched at being ignored.

"You're not going to help?" exclaimed Kakashi annoyed,

He shrugged, "Oh no this battle most certainly doesn't merit my attention, I mean it doesn't seem like that little piece of shit is in to much danger," The blonde chuckled darkly. "unless he develops hypothermia of course."
"Naruto." Grunted the jonin to the blonde who purposely seemed to ignore the last of Konoha's Uchiha and the ice dome that surounded him.

The blonde raised an eyebrow. "Hmmm. Something the matter Hatake," He inquired rhetorically. "you should know I don't care what happens to you or any of you little idiots, I mean I might keep the fag alive but I am most certainly not going to go out of my way just to make sure he lives a pampered life, he is a shinobi, or so the leaf says, he should be able to handle himself." Stated the blond unconeredly.

"Naruto if-"
Kakashi never finished the sentence as he met the ground courtesy of a low level gravity spell.

"Do shut up you idiot." Stated the blond buffing his nails idly.

A large wave of water came flying at the two.

Naruto glanced unconcerened. "He's more of an idiot than you are." The temperature rapidly dropped, freezing the wall of water in place.
"Oh thanks." Grumbled Kakashi
The blonde smirked, "Yes I am sure its not every day you come along some one even more foolish than you." The ice began to break apart forming several wasps. "You've got to realize," Naruto commented, "you should find your balance or else you'll fall."

The wasps flew towards the now irritated missing ninja.

A startled shout broke through the mirrors.

"Looks like your brats are in trouble Kakashi." Stated Zabuza smirking.

"Stupid little leaf genins." Grumbled the blonde. "Hatake don't you dare slip up, not that I care what happens to you but I don't feel like baby sitting the little losers." Naruto vanished shattering the mirrors into thousands of shards with a single sword strike.

Haku stared at the destruction of her most advanced bloodline based technique. "How?"

"Even a diamond can melt when exposed to the flames of the sun." The swords flames licked the concrete causing it to melt... the neutron blue flames shined along the blade. The blonde turned his bored gaze to Sasuke. "So you woke up those eyes," He remarked in disgust, "tch like they'll help, the hokage only said he wanted you alive, may be I should cut them out, another time though."

"Are you helping the leaf ninja?"

"At the moment, I am supposed to keep this little loser from dying." Naruto kicks Sasuke lightly in the ribs, sending the Uchiha into a support column. "Hmm what a bore… night night."

"Huh?"

Whatever Naruto had intended to do was interrupted by the sound of chirping birds.
"Zabuza-sama." Haku throws a series of senbon into Kakashi's arm making it useless, and dispersing the chidori.

"Nice."

"Isn't he your ally."

"Yeah tch right, him my ally that eye stealling hypocrite." Naruto snorted in his ever vapid voice. "Nah I'll kill the silver haired bastard soon enough... just not today. Hey Hatake maybe if you didn't try to give your hypocrite lectures you might have actually killed him."

"Heh, heh, so much for you demon of the mist." Stated a certain fat and currently smirking shipping magnate, standing in front of army of hired thugs. "Okay guys…" stated Gato addressing the thugs. "Here is the deal the man who brings me the head of that eyebrow less bastard gets a bonus."

"Move back." Stated Naruto appearing beside the two jonin. The blond reaches in side his cloak.

"Huh so who the fuck are you?" demands Gato.
Naruto resisted the urge to smash the midget into the ground, "Higa will thank me for killing you I am sure of this." He murmured, "Any way I don't think I like your attitude all that much." The blonde remarked "The only one allowed to insult the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist is me." The decree was punctuated by a harsh glare and an expanding wave of impending doom, the blond resembled a messenger of the death god him self, coming to wrought divine judgment on the wicked.

"Huh. What's going on?" wondered Zabuza aloud shaking off the killing aura after a minute.

"Damn it lets get back Zabuza!" Kakashi shouts, figuring out what the blonde is about to do, "He's summoning one of his boss summons."
Naruto produces a tanto and slices open his fore arm. The blond holds his bleeding fore arm over the water "Ye Guardian of the Northern Gate, Ye Lord of Ice and Snow, Ye Winter King, Black Tortoise, I summon thee Genbu." The land shook as the blood fell into the ocean causing the waters below to begin glowing, Naruto's arm had already healed.

"Did he just?," Zabuza stared down at the disturbed water, that was beginning to distort and become violent. "Oh hell."
"Heaven in this case." Corrected the blond in a bored tone.

A massive black tortoise erupted from the water. "Boss you need me to wreck something?" asked the huge tortoise in a deep voice.

"Something along those lines." Stated Naruto in responsed, "Genbu meet today's target practice. Today's target practice meet Genbu." The cloaked blonde gestures at the thugs standing shocked behind Gato.

"All right then. Crushing Torrent." The massive tortoise released a massive spray of water that peeled skin from flesh and shattered bones.

"Holy shit."
"Genbu as in the one of the five Guardians?" asked a pretty much a stupefied Tazuna
"Yes," The cycloptic jonin muttered, "That summon is also Naruto's favorite as far as when involved in a Naval Battle. He summoned Genbu to wipe out most of Kiri's navy."

Zabuza nodded tightening the bandages on his arms to stymie the blood. "Yeah I know this guy is Goryo, he is infamous in mist, he killed two of the seven swordsman, in mist he's viewed as a bigger monster than even me, and in Earth country who knows what they think he is."

"I will crush all you bastards." Roared the Heavenly guardian of water. "Whirlpool Crush." The remaining thugs were consumed in the swirling vortex of water. The tortoise grinned his destruction wrought.

Naruto nodded approvingly.

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With Gato's demise, it was time to move on, summoning one of the heavenly guardians would surely draw attention, and attention was such a needless bother. It assuredly wouldn't do to attract the attention of anyone with the same capacity.

The original leaf team, Naruto, plus Zabuza and Haku added to the group, set off for Konohagakure.

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Chapter conclusion

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Helltanz's notes: Murue is a magical creature he's not as useless as he seems to be portrayed either. Anyway that handles chapter four, and I know its cliché to keep Zabuza alive and head to leaf, I am sure I will find some use for pointy teeth, just kindly deal with it.

Its kind of right, I am rather against pairing Naruto with some one from Konoha, hell the only I didn't eleminate right of the bat, was Hanabi who's like nine, Hana, who I know next to nothing about, Shizune, which I suppose I could do, right anyway then theirs Kurenai, who will be paired with Asuma so that's out, Tenten, yeah I suppose I could see her wanting to play with Naruto's sword, Yugao.

I don't know, though as I said I would prefer some one not from leaf, Haku, Temari, Princess Yuki. Don't want to do Yugito though, she's two tails container, I don't know haven't decided what to do with her.

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