Finally got this chapter DONE! Meant to finish last week but my stupid life got in the way (aka, I was procrastinating)
A big thanks goes out to Patriot-112 who has been helping me out a lot recently by letting me bounce ideas off of him along with providing OCs for my use, If you haven't already check out his fics Nation of Ice(Gundam Seed) and Narumi and the Ookamikaze(Naruto)
"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Radio"
I do not own Naruto... If I did I would be living in California and pay to have winter outlawed, I hate the cold. I also do not own squad 13, they belong to Patriot-112 so ask him for permission, not me. I do own Ryu Hisanaga, Tukiko Uchiha and this version of Fem-Naru. (Turns to a group of lawyers) There, Happy now?
(Lawyers start putting away the class action lawsuit grumbling)Head Lawyer: We are not, but our client is.
Me: Get out before I sue you for trespassing... Shit (Runs away from the Lawyer swarm offering premium rates and discounts.)
Chapter Three: Mission to Wave
Konoha Forest (Two months after Graduation)
A small shadow was darting between trees unaware of the three pairs of eyes watching it from the shadows above as it itself prowled for its own prey.
"Target in sight moving east," A male voice said over the radio as a shadow followed the prowling hunter "Kitsune, Hawk are you in position?"
"Kitsune ready and waiting." A female voice said impatiently
"Taka is in position," another female voice confirmed patiently "Neko, permission to engage target?"
"Permission granted, let's finish this quickly," A bored voice agreed "My legs are starting to fall asleep."
The hunting shadow was about to leap out at its unsuspecting prey when its own danger sense's went wild and dived out of the way just in time as the male shadow lunged at the hunter causing the hunter to reveal itself as a brown furred cat with a pink ribbon on its right ear. The male grunted as he came in contact with the ground but quickly recovered and grabbed at the cat a couple of more times before the feline managed to give him one final slip and dashed right to where the impatient female shadow was waiting and grabbed at the said cat only for the cat to slash at the offending arms causing the shadow to recoil and hiss in pain.
Making one last attempt for freedom the cat tried to lose its pursuers through the forest only to feel a hand grab its scruff and throw it into a nearby cage and close the cage door on the cat. Smiling triumphantly Tukiko click on her radio "Target captured and confirmed to be the Fire Daimyo's wife's pet Tora." She reported to Yugao over the radio.
"Understood, meet the three of you at the tower." Came Yugao's reply as Ryu and Naru, who was nursing the cuts on her arms, joined Tukiko and started making their way to the tower.
"I want to kill that cat." Naru growled glaring at Tora "I'll be doing all future and current genins a favor by doing so."
"But if you do that then we don't get paid," Ryu comment trying to calm Naru down as he carried the cage and Tukiko healed Naru's arms "As much as I would like to, I like getting paid more."
Naru sighed and sent one last glare at the cat as they entered the tower and handed Tora over to the over affectionate Lady Shimji to which Naru grinned viciously as Tora had the life squeezed out of him 'Revenge, however indirect ,is sweet.' She thought in glee as Tukiko and Ryu looked at her oddly as she started crackling in laughter.
Entering the mission office they met up with Yugao and stood in front of the Hokage and nodded to the other Jonin Sensei that was in the room with his squad, the Jonin was about 5'12" with red shoulder length hair tied into a ponytail and had yellow/brown eyes wearing the standard Jonin uniform with a red flack vest, shinobi sandals and had his Hai-ate around his forehead and a ninjato on his back. His students were about a year older than her own team, the one closest to them was about 5'3" with black hair pulled into a wolf-style tail, he had slightly odd eyes being Brown around the iris and grey near the edge, like Ryu he had woodland cameo pants along with a tan shirt under his black flak vest, green arm guards with fingerless black gloves and Black Shinobi sandals with tan leggings, his Hai-ate was tied around his forehead on a white cloth and had a pair of sais at his waist along with a bo-staff on his back. The next one was a female around 4'7" with ice blue eyes and shoulder length brown hair with a falcon clip on the left side. She wore a green short-sleeved shirt over top of a fishnet shirt and had green wrist-bands. She had a black combat skirt over knee length skin-tight shorts, she had her crimson clothed Hai-ate around her neck and had dual tanto's and a medical pack on her waist. The last genin was 5' even in height and wore a grey bandana with blond hair with hazel streaks peeking out. For clothing he wore a grey T-shit covered by a black leather jacket zipped up the majority of the way with black cargo pants and green shinobi sandals with black leggings and had his black clothed Hai-ate around his waist and a Kusarigama attached to his waist.
"Hachi-nii-san!" Naru cried out excitedly upon seeing the second jonin in the room.
Said Jonin brightened upon seeing Naru "Hello Naru-chan," he greeted brightly "Congratulations on becoming a genin." Hachi Tachibana was one of Naru's old guards along with Kakashi but had left ANBU a year ago to take on a genin team when one of the senseis that was supposed to take one died during the mission. He had later introduced himself to the trio and had befriended them, more in particular befriended Naru. Unknown to the group he had made several attempts along with Kakashi to adopt Naru after the Yondaime, of whom he was a large admirer, sealed the Kyuubi away into Naru. "How are you liking life as Shinobi so far?" he asked pleasantly.
"If we have to chase that thrice damned cat one more time I will kill it." Naru swore with a visible eyebrow twitch as Hachi and his team laughed.
"I can't believe that the cat is still alive," the one with the bo-staff and sais commented with a sigh "I'm Sojiro Matsutani by the way."
"I'm Kiyone Shima and this is Kousaka Tanaka." The female introduced brightly gesturing to the final male of the squad.
"Nice to meet ya, I'm Naru Uzumaki" Naru said grinning brightly and gestured to the others "These are My teammates Tukiko Uchiha and Ryu Hisanaga and our Sensei Yugao Uzuki."
The Hokage coughed lightly calling every ones attention to him "I take it that your team is here for a mission as well Yugao-san?" he asked politely.
"Hai Hokage-sama," she replied curtly "I was hoping we could get a C-ranked for my team, I believe they are ready and they do have the necessary amount of D-ranks under their belt as well."
The aged kage hummed in agreement "It turns out that Hachi-san came here for that very reason as well, unfortunately we only have a single C-rank available for Genins." Sarutobi said pensively.
Hachi gave a discreet cough into his hand "If our genin don't mind how about we do a joint mission with our teams and split the pay." He suggested "It would give the chance for Yugao-san's team to gain some experience while working with a more experienced team."
Yugao nodded in agreement "What do you guys think?" she asked politely although she could already guess at their answer.
"I think it's a good idea," Ryu said answering for the trio "besides we'll go crazy if we have to do anymore chores."
"We're fine with it." Kiyone agreed "Besides I'm getting tired of just having boys to talk to."
"I don't know about that Kiyone-chan, you seem quite happy when talking to Kousaka." Sojiro said deviously causing his to teammates to blush furiously and look away from each other as he laughed.
Sarutobi chuckled as he watched the three teens interact "Very well than, Teams 11 and 13 I have a C-ranked escort and bodyguard mission to Nami no Kuni(1) for you." He declared causing all of them to straighten themselves "You are to escort the bridge builder Tazuna to Nami and guard him until the bridge he is constructing is completed, send him in."
A few seconds later a noticeably drunk man walked in, he stood around 5'8" and had simple hair and black eye and wore simple clothing with a towel around his neck with a sake bottle in his hand "What this?" he asked incredulously peering at the group "I ask for a squad of ninja's and all I get are some snot nosed brats!"
He brought the sake bottle up to take a swig only to have six different kunais thrown at him with to landing on either side of his head, two shattered the sake bottle and two landed far too close to his privates than comfortable casing him to sweat in fear. "You should feel lucky that you are getting two squads for the price of one." Tukiko stated coldly "Besides our senseis are jonin and would be able to handle anything we cannot."
The two senseis smirked at each other at the bridge builders shock as he collected himself "R-right, The name is Tazuna the super bridge builder, I expect you all to be ready to give your lives in my defence." He said off handily.
"Okay Team 11 meet me tomorrow at nine a.m. at the main gate." Yugao said formally dismissing her team as Hachi did the same before the two jonins left via shunshin with their students saying their goodbyes and going their separate ways.
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Hisanaga Main Compound
Ryu's eyes were intent as he worked steadily in his seal workshop working on his latest seal, he needed a protection seal for a jutsu he was working on and it was slow going. As his hand slowly drew the symbols on a slip of paper his mind was completely focused on the task so much he didn't notice Naru and Tukiko enter the room and stand in the doorway watching him in their sleeping clothes, smiles on their faces.
Groaning he set the brush down and leant back to rub his eyes when two pairs of arms encircled him gently "Hey, himes." He greeted with a smile kissing them both. "Is it time for bed already?"
"Yes it is Ryu-kun," Naru confirmed with a grin at how lost he can get in his seals and looked at the seal he was making "What's this one for?"
Ryu grinned as he started cleaning the workbench carefully placing his seal on a drying rack "It's called 'Kami Hogo(2)'," he explained "It's for that jutsu I'm developing."
"Well I think you have done enough Ryu-kun." Tukiko stated as she and Naru led Ryu from the room "We've got a mission tomorrow and we can't have you falling asleep in the middle of it... again."
Laughing the trio made their way to the bedroom to get some rest for the next day.
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Konoha Main Gate, Following Morning
Team eleven arrived a half an hour earlier than agreed upon and were using the spare time they had to check their storage scrolls to make sure they had everything. After they did they they sat under a nearby tree and waited for the other while Naru and Tukiko leaned on Ryu's shoulders and closed their eyes for a bit while he read a book on seals, the only clue to the authors identity were the M.N. initials on the front cover under the title 'Advanced Seal Theory: Mixing Seals and Elements'.
They continued to relax as team 13 showed up and waved in greeting as they did their own mission preparations before Kiyone settled onto the bench with Kousaka beside her causing both of them to blush as Sojiro continued to tease them while Team eleven looked on amused. Shortly after the two senseis arrived with the client and they hit the road making their way to Nami. A couple of hours into the trip both teams were quick to notice the puddle of water that was on the side of the road as it was a warm day and there had been no rain that week, sharing a quick glance with their respective senseis they continued on acting completely oblivious to the genjutsu.
Once they passed the puddle a couple of meters two figures arose out of it, both were obviously related with the same spiky black hair, black eyes and they both wore matching cloaks and rebreather masks as well as a gauntlet on the hand facing the other brother brother with a serrated chain between them attached to the gauntlets. Moving quickly the pair looped their chains around the two jonins and pulled the chain in opposite directions shredding the jonins to shreds. Turning to the genins they expected to see them shaking in fear and were shocked when they saw the two teams of genins smirking with their weapons drawn.
Naru and Ryu both charged the nin on the left, Sojiro and Kousaka took the ninja on the right while Tukiko and Kiyone guarded Tazuna. Ducking low Ryu drew out his dual chokakus and slashed and the chain links severing them while Naru leapt over Ryu and delivered a dropkick to the face of their opponent causing him to stagger backwards dazed. Making full use of the opening Ryu quickly tossed a weighted end of his ninja wire to Naru and they quickly subdued their opponent by knocking him in the temple with the hilt of Ryu's chokaku and hogtying him.
Kousaka quickly drew out his kusarigama and started spinning his weighted end as Sojiro rushed in with his Bo-staff, he quickly thrusted the end at the enemy causing him to jerk back to avoid being speared in the solar plexus. Following him Sojiro spun his staff before jerking the staff in a low sweeping manner forcing his opponent to jump only to meet the weighted end of Kousaka's kusarigama in the face breaking his nose and making him fall into Sojiro's upwards sweep knocking him on the chin sending him to dreamland.
Smirking Sojiro planted his foot on the chest of his enemy and rested his staff on his shoulder as he watched Ryu and Naru finish hogtying their captive before he heard a clapping from the tree line turning everyone saw Yugao leaning against a tree with an approving look on her face as Hachi was sitting on a branch above Yugao leaning against the tree clapping. "Good job everyone," Yugao said "Do you want to interrogate the nuke-nins(3) or the client Hachi-san?"
"I'll take the nins," Hachi decided "been meaning to teach my squad field interrogation anyways." With a nod he gathered up the two ninjas and led his team away into the tree line as Yugao turned to a nervous client with a raised eyebrow.
"So Tazuna-san," Yugao started "Anything you would like to say too us?"
Tazuna sighed in defeat as he wiped his brow and started explaining how Nami was being controlled by a business tycoon named Gato who had shady ties and used intimidation tactics to assert his control and used Nami's isolation to his advantage by jacking up prices for food to the point where most can't afford it, Tazuna and his crew had started building a bridge so that they don't have to rely on Gato's Shipping Industry thus reducing prices and improving the standard of living for everyone, however Gato had quickly caught onto their plan and threatened them to stop so it was decided that we would pool all of their money together to afford a group of shinobi for defense against Gato's thugs "I had no idea that he would have hired rouge ninjas though, all we could afford was the C-rank mission though."
Yugao frowned in thought as she processed the information that she received from Tazuna 'This mission has upgraded to at least B-rank possibly even A-ranked.' She mused as she looked at her students reactions, each of them looked determined to see it through. Before she could ask however Hachi and His team returned with Hachi's team looking ill from the interrogation. "What did you find out?" She questioned as Hachi stepped up beside her.
"They are a part of a team lead by Zabuza Momochi hired by Gato to kill the old man there." Hachi reported "My team already has decided to continue."
Yugao sighed and rubbed her forehead "We pretty much got the same from the old man, although he didn't know about Zabuza however, apparently Gato had been tightly controlling all imports to Nami resulting in starvation of the populous," she explained quietly "My guess is that my team will want to go through the mission as well." She sighed once more as she turned back to her charges "This mission has been bumped up to A-rank," she informed them seriously "We have one of two options; move forward with an extremely high chance of meeting A-ranked Nuke-nins, or, we can return to Konoha and call this mission a bust on faulty information from the client." After sending a brief glare to Tazuna who had the sense to look ashamed she appraised her three genins observing their reactions and their decision making process.
"I think we should continue forward with this," Naru declared with a determined look on her face "These people need our help."
"But there is the possibility that there will be more than one A-ranked nin," Tukiko pointed out "Are we really ready for this? I mean we will be facing off against the 'Demon of the Mist' Zabuza Momochi, one of the seven swordsmen."
Ryu remained silent as the two girls continued to point out various facts calmly for both sides. Frowning he considered the others as he squatted down; their sensei was impassive with the practiced calm of ANBU training as she watched the three of them her thoughts unreadable on her face, Hachi was keeping an eye on the surrounding area anxiously awaiting for the other team to make their decision so the they could get on with the mission, Team 13 were visibly nervous with Sojiro impatiently bouncing from on foot to another as Kiyone kept checking her medical supplies and weapons to make sure that everything was there sneaking the occasional peek to Kousaka who was pacing back and forth keeping an eye out for anyone approaching as he also snuck a couple of peeks at Kiyone when she wasn't looking.
Sighing he sat back and looked at his two teammates/girlfriends, Naru looked slightly nervous with her subtle twitches and the slight indentation on her cheek that show that she was biting it, her eyes on the other hand were completely determined and focused in the present. Tukiko was obviously concerned as her eyes continually darted between Naru and Ryu biting her lip nervously but remained steady and clear headed using her nervousness as a guide to what the dangers are rather than letting them control her. "The way I see it," Ryu began calling the two girls attention to him "There are a few things that we need to consider here. First this mission is now an A-ranked with a strong chance of facing Zabuza Momochi and maybe even more than just him. Second, we have yet to back down from a mission or opponent yet, although this one is beyond our league we have our sensei, Team 13 and Hachi-sensei on our side plus a few surprises of our own. Third, If we do not help than Team 13 will be finishing this mission solo making it much harder for them and Nami is falling into an economic depression with the people most likely giving up any hope for survival," He stood up at that point and rolled his neck to work out the kinks "So I see that it is our duty as Konoha shinobi to continue on with this mission because those that abandon the mission are trash, but those that abandon their comrades are less than trash, and I for one don't want to be known for abandoning the mission and my comrades." He stated with a large grin that the girls returned as the two jonins raised an eyebrow at his pep talk.
"So there is our answer sensei," Naru stated proudly "Team 11 wishes to continue on with the mission."
Yugao chuckled as she shook her head at her students "Very well than, this mission will continue as planned."
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Unknown Location
"Your ninja's failed Zabuza," a midget of a man stated as glared at larger person reclined on a couch lazily "I'm starting to wonder if you can even kill a simple old man."
Anything else that he was going to say was cut off when a massive Zanbato appeared right next to his head "It's only a minor setback," Zabuza rumbled as he held the massive sword in one hand "My Kubikiri Bocho(4) will make short work of whatever bodyguards that old man hired."
Gato snarled at Zabuza before turning away "Make sure you get the job done right or I won't pay you anything."
Zabuza only snorted as he stood and disappeared in a swirl of water.
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"We'll be able to see the bridge soon." Tazuna whispered loud enough for everyone to hear as they ghosted along the waters that surrounded the Island nation of Nami through a thick mist "It's my pride and joy, the largest bridge in the Elemental Nations and the best hope for Nami."
When they finally saw the bridge through the mist Sojiro let out a low whistle of appreciation that caused Tazuna to beam in pride "Now that's a bridge." He murmured as they passed by.
"Can you please keep it down," the boatman asked plaintively "Gato has patrols running along the coast and I do not want to get caught."
Once they had finally got to shore they continued on in silence with all of the ninja on alert for anything out of the ordinary. They were like this for about an hour when Naru suddenly flung out a kunai at a clump of bushes, everyone was tense for a second when a white rabbit suddenly popped out obviously shaken and afraid causing some of the shinobi to relax. The jonins however went on further alert 'A white hare?' Yugao thought in confusion 'I thought they were supposed to be brown in the summer, unless...'"Everyone! HIT THE DIRT!".
Yugao warning came just in time as the genins ducked with Ryu pushing Naru and Tukiko down and covering them as Kousaka did the same with Kiyone and Sojiro dragged Tazuna down to the dirt just before a Massive Zanbato spiralled overhead colliding with a tree and sticking there with Zabuza appearing himself a couple of seconds later appearing on the hilt of his sword his back to them but his head turned to face them.
"Well, well," Hachi drawled drawing his ninjato as Yugao drew her katana "Looks like the big boss Zabuza has finally appeared."
"Oh? So you know me? Can't say I know either of you." Zabuza sneered "How 'bout you just hand the old man over to me and go along your way."
"Sorry," Yugao apologised sarcastically "Can't really let our pay check get killed now can we, Genin defend the client and stay back, we will handle this one."
The genins immediately set up a triangular formation around Tazuna with Ryu and Sojiro on point, Naru and Kousaka behind them and Tukiko and Kiyone at the back. Chuckling Zabuza grabbed the hilt of his sword and disappeared reappearing on top of a lake with on hand in the air and the other in a half Tora seal "Observe the greatest of the ninja arts 'Suiton: Kirigakure'(5)" he intoned as extremely think mist descended onto the area blocking all view.
It remained that way for a minute until Zabuza started pouring out the Killing Intent(KI from now on) causing the genins to blanch in fear while the jonins remained unaffected by it. "Heart, Liver, Lung, Spine, Jugular, Collarbone, Brain." Zabuza recited his voice coming from everywhere "These are all the 'one-hit kill' points in the body, the question is, which one do I chose?"
'This is intense,' Naru thought as she gripped the handle of her wakazashi tighter 'This feeling he really wants to kill us, do we really stand a chance?'
"Relax you guys," Hachi called out calmly "We won't let our comrade's die, it causes too much paperwork." Despite the severity of the situation everyone couldn't help but let out a snort at that statement as the genins calmed down and relaxed slightly.
Frowning from his position in the mist Zabuza couldn't help but be impressed with how easily the jonin eliminated the fear that was building up in the genins 'I better end this now,' he thought as he made his move.
Yugao's eyes darted everywhere searching out for her opponent through the thick mist while Hachi calmed the genin down when Zabuza suddenly started laughing "Won't allow them to die?" he mocked as he appeared in the center of the genins formation his zanbato in the perfect position to kill all of them in a single swing.
Gasping Yugao dashed forward alongside Hachi to try to prevent the death of their genins when Ryu struck first by quickly launched a mule kick surprising Zabuza with his instant reaction and causing him to collapse into a pool of water "FUCK!" he swore "Mizu Bunshin(6)!"
'Okay, that surprised me.' Zabuza admitted to himself as he created a couple more Bunshins 'I need to stop underestimating my opponents.' Sending out his clones he had them circle the jonin deciding to have deal with the biggest threat first.
Cursing Yugao slashed a water clone that had attempted to skewer her from behind. Standing back to back with Hachi they started cutting their way through the clones easily only for Yugao to receive a vicious kick from the real Zabuza while a distracted Hachi received the same treatment from a clone when he whipped his head around at Yugao shout of pain. Both landing in the water they tried to get out only to find the water hampering their movements more than usual "Suiton: Suirou(7)" Zabuza intoned as he and a clone appeared above their prisoners with an unseen smirk on his bandaged face. Now that he had removed the biggest threat he turned his gaze to the genins that had shocked looks on their faces "Now than, I believe it's time to take out the trash."
All six genins gulped at his words as a pair of Mizu Bunshins appeared taking the form of Zabuza. "Run dammit!" Yugao shouted desperately "Your no match for him! The Bunshins will lose integrity the further you get away from here!"
"Like hell we will abandon you sensei," Naru declared vehemently "Don't you remember our motto? 'Those who abandon their friends are trash.'"
Sojiro smirked as he eyed the bunshin in front of his team "Can you guys handle your clone?" he asked.
"Don't worry, we got it." Tukiko assured as she and her teammates drew their weapons with Ryu pulling out his tonfa's "Just worry about your own eyebrowless wonder clone."
Zabuza's eye twitched at her statement "You know something," he said something "I hate genins like you, thinking that this is all a game, no blood on your hands, to me you only become a ninja when you have actually bloodied your hands. That was my favorite part about Kirigakure's old genin exam, you had to kill one of your own teammates to become a genin."
Both teams gasped at the revelation fighting down the urge to vomit, having to kill the people you've been with for six years, that just sick "And you know something else?" he continued reviling in the fear that the genins produced "I killed the entire graduating class, when I was nine!"
The genins visibly blanched at the revelation that he made as the clones approached, Seeing the threat approach Ryu forced his fear away and stood between Zabuza's clones and his teammates standing in a boxing stance. Zabuza chuckled as he saw this and had to admit to himself that the kid was certainly impressive for his age and silently applauded him as this action made the other genins pull themselves together "Naru, Tukiko, formation Gamma." He whispered and received nods of confirmation as they took their stances "GO!"
Charging the clone Ryu began his assault as he fought with the clone desperately trying to hold his own long enough for the girls to get ready for their attack, ducking under the slash he let out a yelp of pain as the clones foot connected with his chest flinging him back crashing into the girls who were approaching from behind him in the hopes of catching the clone by surprise. Landing in a heap Ryu groaned as he slowly stood up nursing his abused chest, Taking a quick glimpse over to the girls he saw they were in much better shape than him and a quick glance to team 13 told him that they were somewhat okay for the time being. Watching the clone he quickly assessed the situation 'He's stronger, faster, more experience, more knowledgeable, so how do we beat the BLOODY GODAMN CLONE,' he shouted to himself when a sudden though hit him "Naru, Tukiko, buy me some time, I'm using that!" he shouted both of them nodded. as they took off.
Pulling out a pair of Sealing tags he quickly placed them on his forearms and formed a couple of handseals "Fuinjutsu: Kami Hogo," he intoned causing the seals to flash white before melting into his body. Forming some more handseals at a quick pace he prayed to every deity that he could think of that it would work he finished with the 'Ox' seal and intoned "Kinraiton: Raiinparusu(8)".
What happened next can only be described as literally shocking as sparks started fly off of Ryu's body before he vanish with a sparking sound only to reappear behind the clone that his teammates were face smashing it with a massive kick to the back of the head before disappearing and reappearing behind the clone facing team 13 dispelling that one, Gritting his teeth Ryu could feel that his chakra stores were about to fail, so he channeled his remaining chakra and form some handseals channeling the last of his chakra and the Raiinparusu into his hands and intoned "Raiton: Tsuin Raikyu(9)" and launched twin balls of lightning at Zabuza and his clone who were holding the jonins captive forcing him to release the captives or be hit by a very fast ball of lightning, his clone however was not so lucky.
Zabuza snarled as Ryu collapsed to the ground from Chakra exhaustion only to be caught by a worried Tukiko and Naru as the jonin pair prepared to fight against Zabuza again on top of the lake. Yugao flashed through some seals in sync with Zabuza both forming the exact same seals as the other with both of them finishing at the same time "Suiton: Suiryuudan(10)!" they intoned at the same time with dragons made of water rising up behind them and clashing together. While that was happening Hachi leapt at Zabuza clashing his ninjato with Zabuza's Zanbato in a struggle of dominance that Zabuza was slowly winning. Suddenly Hachi ducked out of the way and Zabuza soon found out why as Yugao finished the final hand seal that she was preparing "Suiton: Daibakufu(11)" she intoned Causing the water to blast itself at Zabuza with enough force to level a house blasting him into a tree while Yugao and Hachi landed on either side on him on branches.
They turned to finish him off when a trio of senbon needles pierced his neck dropping him. A light giggling could be heard as a figure appeared next to the body of Zabuza. The figure was no taller than Naru with a light build and wore kimono-like clothing and had the Kiri hunter-nin mask covering their face "Thank you," the figure said in a feminine voice "I have been hunting him for a while now, so thank you for weakening him enough for me to finish."
Landing near Zabuza Yugao watched the hunter-nin carefully while she checked Zabuza's pulse 'Yep, he's dead.' She confirmed.
"Now if you will excuse me I must dispose of the corpse," the nin said before grabbing Zabuza's body and disappearing.
Looking over to the genin Yugao saw Ryu was unconscious with his head resting on Naru's lap as Tukiko check him for injuries "He's fine sensei," Tukiko declared standing up helping Naru place him on her back "Just a case of Chakra exhaustion."
Yugao sighed in relief when she heard that, she had been shocked when she saw him pull that trick out of the bag "Good let's get to Nami before someone else decides to show up." She said as they hit the road once more.
End Chapter
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1- Nami no Kuni- Wave Country
2- Kami Hogo- Divine Protection
3- Nuke-nins- Missing-Nins
4- Kubikiri Bocho- Decapitating Knife (If he considers that a knife I would hate to see what he considers a Zanbato)
5- Suiton: Kirigakure- Water Release: Hidden Mist
6- Mizu Bunshin- Water Clone
7- Suiton: Suirou- Water Release: Water Prison
8- Kinraiton: Raiinparusu - Forbidden Lightning Release: Lighting Impulse. S-class forbidden technique that is used in conjunction with Kami Hogo that allows the user to send lightning chakra through the nervous system greatly increasing their; speed(Greatly), strength(minimal), and giving the user a zero-point reaction time. Normally unusable due to the intense pain and the fact that the technique would fry the users nervous system, the effects are negated by the Kami Hogo seal that Ryu designed for that exact reason. The technique itself is extremely chakra extensive however and the seals do not last for more than one minute. Using metal Weapons is extremely ill advised as the electricity will be conducted by the metal shocking the user
9- Raiton: Tsuin Raikyu- Lighting Release: Twin Lighting Ball- Variant of Raiton: Raikyu where the user launches two balls of lightning out of his hands instead of one.
10- Suiton: Suiryuudan- Water Release: Water Dragon Missile
11- Suiton: Daibakufu- Water Release: Grand Water Explosion
Also there is a poll on my profile regarding which type of story I should start next so please vote.(I have to get the plot bunnies out of my head[I'm starting to talk to them out loud in public]) Any Stories that are from this 'Universe' will be following a different timeline and different events and character development so that there are no spoilers and this story will still surprise you as most of the stories I want to do have the characters 16-23 years old.