Hey ya'll. It has been practically a year. Here is chapter four of TRTD. Also thank you for the reviews, everyone's good reviews and intelligent, polite criticism reviews spur me on to make another chapter.

IcecreamMakingGuy: I honestly didn't know what Tsunade's last name was or if they even gave her a last name so I just went with Sarutobi because I new that she was related or possibly engaged/married to other kages; I figured it wasn't too much of a stretch.

Also, sorry it took me so long to post this one, a severe case of writer's block with the fight. After that disclaimer, here's another: I don't own Naruto or any other anime. If I did, Orochimaru would be wearing a French sailor outfit. Also, I know that it seems that a lot of the story passes in one chapter but I'm not adding any fluff to make them last longer until my own original plot. The rest of the anime series might only last about 8 more chapters, but I might become inspired. Sorry about errors but Word isn't infallible.

The First Kitsukage : I am sorry but I didn't know about that since I just recently discovered online anime and manga (part of the reason for the long break) It's a small plot hole. Thank you for pointing this out and please report them to me. If I can fix them, I will. If I can't, well, I will tell you. I will keep the name for now though.

OnGuard: You can at least try to be respectful. It isn't like you are paying for this story. Yes I realize now that small plot hole and I will try my best to patch it up this chapter. As for the fight, the guy is presumed an ANBU level ninja, it is plausible that he could recover and launch another attack.

SordweilderSurvivor: After the main anime plot, maybe.

Dragon Man 180: I realize that it was strange that there wasn't any security around Naruto when he was in the hospital but I needed him to get out of there to continue the plot. I will think of some explanation.

Also, thanks to everyone who reviewed me and told me about Naruto being a bit too powerful and believe me, it annoys me when there is a Naruto who can take on an army of ANBU and not get a scratch (unless he is just plain badass) so the villains, even the less significant ones, will also get a power boost to make the fight more interesting. Also, the fact that I never bothered to try to use the Japanese jutsu names doesn't limit me to the attacks used in the anime.

Also (last time, I promise) I don't specifically know when they fought Zabuza so I might be off a bit.

Again, if anyone wants the 30 days to kill made by the original account holder, it is up for grabs by anyone; just mention this account at least once.

And finally, a joke:

Rower: I like a-rowing. (Singing terribly off key)

Naruto: Oh my goodness will you shut up!

Rower: NO. I only get about 25 seconds in this series and I can spend it as I like. A rowing a rowing it's a fun to be a rowing (Continues singing that is a crime against humanity)

Kakashi: Does anyone object to me throwing this guy off the boat?

All: NO

Rower: Hey, what are you doing…hey, what NOOOOOOO. (SPLASH)

On with the story

The next day

Beep, Beep, Click. That would be Kakashi hitting the snooze button on his alarm for the tenth, maybe the eleventh, time. Kakashi got up just enough to look at the red screen. I said to be there at 6:00 and it is 7:40 now. I got twenty more minutes. After that short thought, he promptly went back to sleep.

As for with his students, earlier that morning

Hinata, Naruto and Sasuke had arrived at 6:00 on the dot or earlier. Naruto turned to his two partners in crime, "Sasuke, do you have the materials?" He answered with a simple nod. "Hinata, do you have the plans?" She answered in the same fashion. "Okay good, and I have the stuff for the wait after and our little surprise, now let's get started. We only have about 2 hours to get everything ready and rest."

"Hai," responded the two others.

Back with Kakashi

Kakashi was walked down the path to the park while reading his book. It was almost amazing how he would walk down the path and not bump into any of the people or the numerous trees. At one occasion, he even somersaulted over a small, stray dog. He arrived at the sight of the memorial stone and for the first time that day, put down his book and nearly face-planted. Right in front of him were his students, all asleep in large sleeping bags and surrounded by juice boxes and fruit snacks. Although he was annoyed, he wasn't at all surprised seeing how Naruto knows about his habit of being late to everything.

He walked over to the sleeping Naruto and lightly kicked him awake, "Naruto, I am just going to assume that this is your doing so from now on, you can't use any of your jutsu that you learned from Reiku (that's the Kyuubi's name incase you forgot) and you can not use any jutsu higher than B-rank. Plus, you can't use you sword or any medical ninjutsu or your flashstep or your super strength during this test"

"Yeah, I kind of thought that might happen," said the defeated Naruto, "but that doesn't mean that I will be a pushover either. Besides, you wouldn't be doing this just to make sure you don't take serious injury from me, or are you?"

"We'll see about that, now go and wake up your friends."

Naruto stomped off mumbling something about silver haired perverts with no life. He walked over to the sleeping girl and kneeled next to her. "Hinata, Hinata wake up," he said as he gently shook her awake.

Hinata open her eyes to find Naruto leaning over her a bit. She went lobster red and just barely stuttered out a, "H-h-hi Naruto-kun." Some habits never die. She saw Naruto offer his hand to help her up and she took it with relish. Luckily, Sasuke had awoken on his own seconds earlier and the test could begin. After one explanation of the rules, you can just add in the stuff from the anime, the test began with all three genin hopefuls disappearing into the trees.

"Well, they all got off to a good start. None of them were stupid enough to stay back and challenge me directly, like they would have a snowball's chance in hell against me alone."

With Tsunade and Hiashi

Hiashi had just entered Tsunade's office when he sits down in front of her desk.

"Thank you for coming so soon Hiashi-dono," Tsunade said respectfully, "It has come to question whether or not the Hyuuga mansion is secure."

"It is not a lack of security in our home, the man wore a concealing sutra that hid his presence from the Byakuugan. The offending sutra was burned immediately as it posed a threat to out clan," he stated in a business manner, "When the guards heard the commotion, they simply assumed that he was there training while you were in the meeting with me, he has been known to go to extremes in his training."

Tsunade nodded as she that it true, sometimes the boy would cause massive damage to a training area in his quest to become stronger. Then she was interrupted from her musings, "Hokage-sama, how was it that he wasn't at the Hospital when I went to find him?"

Not it was her turn to explain, "Naruto knows a decent amount of medical techniques and has fair medical knowledge. I trust him to know when he has reached his limit. I always have guards on him when he in unconscious, even in the house, but I trust him to leave whenever he deems himself fit."

Hiashi thought about her words. I wasn't good for a young ninja to be looked over all the time; it was suffocating and can hinder their progress as they develop into their own person. He learned this from being a parent as well as a ninja clan head. He got up and left, he had gotten all the answers that he needed for now, even if the person who saved his daughter was still a mystery, he knew the Hokage wouldn't tell him anything more now than she did the other times he asked. He simply learned to live with the fact that he would be eternally grateful to someone he will never know.

Back with Team 7

Three barrages of kunai and shuriken flew at Kakashi from three directions. He thought that this was simple enough to dodge with a simple jump into the air. That turned out to be a fatal mistake as all of the projectiles turned path and followed him into the air. Kakashi may have been caught already as he cannot maneuver out of the way in mid air. Kakashi tried his best to dodge but ended up taking three to the right shoulder and fell to the ground in a heap, before revealing that he was only a log.

Naruto knew that now he mostly likely knew where all of them were, so he decided to attack before Kakashi could counterattack. Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata all sprang out of one bush and rushed Kakashi. Kakashi dodged the first punch from Naruto and had to duck and sidestep to dodge a strike from Hinata and a ferocious roundhouse kick from Sasuke.

Sasuke leaped to attempt a mid-air punch to the face that Kakashi caught in his hand. He followed with another punch that now occupied Kakashi's second hand. The raven hair boy twisted his body to try to kick him in the head but Kakashi threw him away before he could contact. Naruto came in with a sharp punch to his torso while Hinata attempted to sweep his feet. Sadly, Kakashi simply dodged this by jumping above the genin.

"Sasuke NOW!" yelled Naruto as he began his own set of hand seals. Sasuke received the message and began a set too.

Kakashi immediately recognized the jutsu Sasuke was preparing and almost laughed. There is not way that a genin could possibly use a fire jutsu like that, it take too much chakra. He was just about to reach the apex of his flight when he noticed that Sasuke had successfully launched the Grand Fire Ball no jutsu. He couldn't dodge an attack that large in mid-air, but he was a jonin for a reason, he was already started on a jutsu that could cancel out Sasuke's. That was until he heard Naruto's voice ring out, "Grand Air bullet" He turned to so Naruto's attack on a collision course with Sasuke's attach right where he would be in mere seconds. This is going to hurt.

The explosion was fiery and extremely large. After that attack, there was a fifty feet (about 15 meters) scorch mark left on the ground. The only reason that Konoha wasn't currently burning to the ground was because Hinata had doused the surrounding area in water while they were preparing that morning. Speaking of preparations, what was Naruto doing with that piece of ninja wire?

Kakashi soon found that out as about thirty explosive notes popped out of the ground. They set a trap? He thought, as these were his first students ever to actually set a trap for him. Too bad it will be all for nothing. He said as he began in sink underground.

Naruto only gave a small chuckle as he gripped a leaf on one of the trees. "I thought you might try that." He plucked the leaf and seconds later, the entire ground exploded into the air, taking Kakashi along with it. With that, Naruto plucked a second leaf and activated the second part of the trap. Every single one of the explosive notes on the ground exploded and covered Kakashi, along with the rest of the forest, in a pink slime.

Kakashi was not only annoyed by the color, but he was also finding it more difficult to move by the second. "What is this stuff?" he asked as he struggled to get the sticky slime.

"It an exotic type of trap that I found in one of mom's books. It is really difficult to make as it has over 150 ingredients and if you make one mistake, it will explode," Naruto said as he lifted his hair to show Kakashi the remnants of his failures. "But it is worth it, not only does it harden to become stronger than steel, it also absorbs chakra so it is almost impossible to get out of it. So…do we pass?"

"Well, seeing as I can't move and you did successful work together to trap me, I couldn't fail you guys even if I wanted to."

"So we pass?" asked the excited Hinata.

"Yeah, you pass."

"Awesome, come on guys, let's celebrate with some ramen. I know a little place that make the best that you will ever taste."

"Okay Naruto-kun."

"Whatever."

"Hey guys, are you just going to leave me here? How do I get out of this?"

"Oh yeah, there are only two things that can break that stuff. Urine and saliva, so…take your pick," he told the unfortunate man as he ran to catch up to his teammates and friends, "Oh and before you choose, know that one of the ingredients of that stuff is bat guano."

"Naruto, when I get out of this, you are dead," he said before he made his decision and wished to high heaven that he could plug his nose at the very least.

Time Skip

After several mind numbing D-rank missions that have absolutely nothing to do with the plot of anything. Naruto and his team were sitting in front of his mother and receiving their pay for capturing that damn cat, yet again when he says, "Tsunade-sama," he can't call here mom in public, "I believe that we are ready for a C rank mission."

"We've completed our quota for D-rank missions and working together, we managed to incapacitate Kakashi on our first day, and we are well qualified," answered the formal speaking son.

"Hmm, what you say is true," she said, thinking about it for a while, "Fine, you will receive your first C-rank mission today," she then turned to the door, "Okay, you can come in now." Out walked the old, drunk bridge builder.

(Not part of the story)

"Wait, what the crap, do you just stand in there until someone comes in wanting a job?" asked Naruto.

"Yeah, pretty much."

"How long have you been waiting in there?" Hinata asked.

"Five freaking days, I saw D-ranks, B-ranks, even a few A-ranks pass through but there wasn't one single C-rank mission for nearly a week."

"What's in there anyway?" asked Sasuke.

"An open bar."

(Back to the plot)

"Hic, what are you doing sending me along with a bunch of children," protested the drunkard, "They all look weak, especially the short one."

"Listen old man, the last thing that you want to do is underestimate me or my teammates. And I'm not short!!!"

"Naruto, remember, he is the client," reminded his mother.

"It was just a friendly warning," he responded.

"Sure it was. Now get out of here, I still have a lot of paperwork to do."

Along the path to Wave

Team 7 and the old drunkard had left Konoha for the land of waves. Nothing remarkable had occurred until Naruto noticed a puddle when he knew that it hadn't rained in weeks. Naruto coiled one of his tails towards Kakashi and touched his head with it. Kakashi-sensei, can you hear me?

Yeah, loud and clear; Naruto, what did I tell you about giving me some warning before you use this technique to speak to me. I nearly cut off your tail when it touched me.

Well this is important, I noticed a puddle back there that shouldn't have been there and we are headed to a land with ninja who specialize in water techniques. See the coincidence.

Yeah, I noticed that puddle too. Just be sure to stay on guard and…crap too late.

Two men materialized out of the small puddle and quickly rushed Kakashi. Before the jonin even moved, they had both wrapped their bladed chain around him and ripped him to bits. Naruto, Sasuke and Hinata were going insane at the sight of their recently murdered teacher but they didn't have long to lament as the two mist ninja turned their attention to the children.

They both charged with the razor chain clinking as they neared the blond boy. Naruto deftly unsheathed his sword and chopped the chain in half with a brutal slash. The shorter of the two brothers, discouraged, discarded the chain and charged after the raven-haired boy as he assumed him to be easier prey. The taller brother however decided to hold onto his chain and use it as a weapon himself.

When the older released the chain from his gauntlet, it turned out that there was a hidden compartment that hid a spiked ball at his end of the chain. After a few defensive test swings, the mist ninja was in a ready position as he stared down young blond opponent. The mist shinobi swung the chain right as Naruto who put up his sword to block the spiked ball. However, the mist nin gave the chain more slack at the last second and managed to get his chain completely wrapped around Naruto sword.

"Kuso!" he cursed as his sword was roughly torn from his grasp. Reacting quickly, he grabbed some shuriken with both hands and flung them forward to the thieving ninja. The fact that he had his sword stolen from him was enough of an insult, but having his own sword used against him to block all of his shuriken was just not fair. The again, who said that a ninja fight was fair? Knowing full well that a Kiri nin would almost certainly be skilled with his sword, he knew that anymore projectiles would be slashed or dodged.

Sasuke was having trouble with the younger brother who was relentless with his slashing gauntlet attacks. Sasuke had managed to either block or dodge all of his attacks but every time that he did try to block his gauntlet with his kunai, his arm would turn numb from the sheer force of the attack. Sasuke dodged under another powerful attack and tried to swipe the enemy's legs with his kunai. The ninja effortlessly jumped over the attack and used gravity's momentum to make an even more powerful slash at Sasuke head. Sasuke barely rolled to the side and managed to launch a few kunai in the process and immediately started sealing. The younger brother started his own sealing also.

"Phoenix Flower no Jutsu."

"Water Concealment no Jutsu."

Sasuke launched as barrage of fireballs at the mist ninja. Unfortunately for Sasuke, the enemy ninja fell into a puddle of water, causing all of Sasuke's fireballs to fly harmlessly above him. His rose from his puddle with a superior look, that was until he saw Sasuke smirk and cross his arms, his fingers out as if he was controlling a puppet. The fireballs that the mist nin thought that he dodged before began to curve back around and encircle him. "Ninja wire attached to shuriken hidden within the fireballs," he yelled in his head as he was completely bound by the offending and searing hot metal wire and shuriken. Sasuke walked up and delivered as swift kick to the back of his head to knock him out.

The older of the two brothers was charging Naruto with his own sword no less. Naruto had a fearful look on his face as it looked like his own blade would cut him down. The blade neared his vulnerable head as the mist nin readied himself for the killing blow. Then Naruto smiled, and dark fire raced out of the black hilt of his sword. The flames of darkness engulfed the mist ninja who tried all that he could to extinguish them but they refused to leave him. Naruto finally decided that a light toasting would suffice and ended the ninja's suffering, alive, in pain, but alive.

Just as the last brother fell, Kakashi came walking out of the bushes while clapping his hands as if he was just treated to a show. Naruto and Sasuke were annoyed that they had to fight such opponents while Hinata simply seemed relieved to see that her sensei was still alive and well.

Naruto was the first to respond, "WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?" he yelled in obvious agitation. Sasuke didn't say anything but that didn't mean that he wasn't giving the lazy ninja the dirtiest look he could muster.

"I wanted to see if you guys could handle yourselves in your own and get a new perspective of your abilities," he said cheerily.

"So you let three genin fight two B-rank missing-nin in order to see if we could actually do it?" said an angry Sasuke.

Both boys gave Kakashi one final glare before they continued down the path to water country, there was no more point in this conversation. There was however a something to gain from another, "Tazuna, why were you being pursued by the Demon Brothers of the Mist if this is only a C-rank mission?" interrogated the infamous Copy Ninja.

One heartfelt story later

They were walking closer to the rendezvous point for the pickup to Wave country when Hinata asked a question, "A-ano, Naruto-kun, but where d-d-did that black fire c-come from t-t-that attacked t-the other ninja?"

Naruto looked back actually surprised that someone had asked him that, "It is the special ability of my sword, and it is called Shadow of Fire. It isn't bright at all so its great for stealth but its also twice as hot as regular flames and they will keep burning until I will them to stop."

This intrigued both Sasuke and Hinata, "Where did it come from?" they both asked almost in unison. Of course, Kakashi already knew where his sword came from; he had known ever since he saw Reiku training Naruto with the katana in the Hokage dojo. It had a hilt that was black as night but had an intricate thin lining that looked like a fox head in orange. The guard was in the shape of a nine-point star while the blade had an elegant curve to it. The sheath that it rested in had a fox at the bottom with nine red tails twirling and intertwining up it.

Both Hinata and Sasuke stopped for a moment so that they could admire the blade and, more importantly, the boy that wielded it. As they watched his back grow smaller, they only had one thing on their minds. "Naruto Uzumaki Sarutobi, who are you?"

Well, I hope that I filled in all of the plot holes that I could. You have to tell me about them if you want them filled in later. Oh and on more tiny little itsy bitsy thing. REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW