AN: Hello world and all who inhabit it. I updated much faster than the last time. Now I'm not sure how far this chapters going to go, but I'll it might go to the end of the wave arc or about halfway. Also Haku will be a girl in this. I swear no man can be that pretty except the lead singer of Europe, I mean have you seen him enough of my rambling lets get on with it.

Disclaimer: You should know.

A Week after the last chapter

"Naruto here in position."

"Sakura here also"

"Sasuke as well"

"Can you identify the ribbon on its ear?"

"Yeah, alright I'm moving in."

REEEEEEEEOW!!!!!!!! Thats the sound that greeted the two senseis of Team 7. The mission was quite simple, the Fire Lord's cat, Tora aka Demon Cat, had escaped, again. And it was Team 7's job to find it. The only problem was that it was stubborn and evil.

"OWWWWWW!!!! Get it off! Get it off!" And right about now it was attached to Naruto's face clawing at it.

"Naruto, you baka. Stop screaming your scaring it to death!" Sakura shouted as she took the cat off his face, and once in her arms it started to purr. "Mission accomplished senseis."

"Good job everyone. Let's head back so we can collect our pay." Kakashi reported back. Him and Takashi were a few feet away and were containing there laughter for their unfortunate team.

"WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET A REAL MISSION!!!" Naruto shouted causing everyone to flinch from the volume of his voice right in there ears thanks to their ear phones.

Later at the mission tower

They all couldn't blame the cat for running away as they saw him get hugged viciously by the Fire Lord's wife as she paid for the mission. When she walked away and the team got their pay the Hokage turned to them. "Well, now that thats taken care of let's get on with your next mission." He said as he took out some papers. "You can either weed lawns on the North side of town, paint a few fences, or-" "Oh come on old man. Give us a real mission." Naruto interrupted Sarutobi from continuing. "I don't want to do these chores anymore. I want to go and fight some bandits and save people." Naruto continued to shout.

'He's a bold one that one.' Came the voice of Shadow. 'Yeah, he's got a lot of confidence. Thought it will probably kill him.' Takashi thought back as Iruka shouted at Naruto for being disrespectful. 'Yes it could. But I believe you could get that out of his system pup.' 'Yeah, Yeah.' He finally noticed Kakashi was looking at him as well as the rest of the people in the room. "What?" He asked in an annoyed tone.

Before Kakashi or the Hokage could answer Naruto spoke up, "Didn't you hear? Can we please have a harder mission sensei? Pleeeeeeeease?" Naruto asked with the biggest puppy dog eyes he could muster. Looking at the other Genin he saw them looking at him with suspense. Looking at Kakashi he saw that he had already agreed to it so it seemed he was outnumbered. Sighing he said, "I guess we could have a C-rank mission." He reluctantly said. He winced when Naruto jumped up and down and screamed a 'Yatta!' Only to get punched to the ground by an irate Sakura.

Recovering, Naruto stood up and yelled excitedly, "So whats the mission? Are we fighting some bandits, escorting a princess from a far off land?" Smiling a bit Sarutobi turned to the door and said, "Let him in." When the door opened out stepped a man wearing a brown vest over a light gray shirt and brown shorts. He had gray hair and beard and wore a Chinese style round hat and wore glasses. In his hand he held a flask which by the way he sort of stumbled in was filled with sake.

Taking a look at the team he scoffed, "These are the ninja that I hired? They all look like they'd run home at the sight of danger. Especially that blonde one." After grabbing the back of his jumpsuit Kakashi boardly said, "You do not have to worry sir, me and my friend here are experienced Jonin. We'll be able to protect you if anything goes wrong. And who know they might surprise you." Looking a little skeptical he said, "Yeah, well my names Tazuna the super bridge builder and you'll have to protect me until I finish my bridge." After he said that there was sort of a flash of fear in his eyes and his hands twitched a bit.

Ignoring it Kakashi and Takashi turned to their team. "Alright, everyone meet at the front gate in an hour, that means you Kakashi, and we'll get this show on the road." Takashi said after glaring at Kakashi for a second.

Aburame Compound, Shino's home

Walking through the front door Takashi first noticed that their was a heavenly aroma coming from the kitchen. Walking to it he saw his Aunt Kiki at the stove making something. She was a beautiful woman. She had long black hair and blue eyes and had a friendly aura around her. She was wearing a blue kimono with flower and butterfly designs. As he stepped into the room she turned and smiled at him and he smiled back. "What are you doing here so early?" She asked.

As he sat down he responded, "The team has a C-rank mission today and I have to get ready." After he was done she sat down across from him. "Isn't it a little to early for them to have a C-rank mission?" She asked. Shaking his head he said, "Yeah, but it's nothing but escorting some bridge builder to his home and then waithing for him to finish a bridge. So, it shouldn't be too hard."

After he said that the door opened and Shino stepped through. "I'm home." He said. Walking into the kitchen he was surprised to see his cousin sitting there as he usually wouldn't be back till later than he was.

Standing Kiki said, "Hello Shino-kun. Are you here for your extra kunai?" At his nod she went off to find them. "So, did you tell Kurenai what I told you." Takashi asked. Shino nodded remebering Kurenai's reaction to the small "threat" that Takashi had sent. "She said she wouldn't take it easy on me or be too tough on me." He said. "Good." Takashi responded. They both sat there for a moment, the only sound being rummaging from upstairs. Clearing his throat a bit Shino broke the silence, "Why are you here so early?" Looking torwards him Takashi said, "My team has been assigned a mission out of the village and I need to get ready." Shino nodded a bit miffed that they got a harder mission but it was understandable with two senseis.

Standing up Takashi said, "Well, I better get going. I only have about 45 minutes left and I don't want to be Kakashi. Tell your mother I said bye." Shino nodded and he left for home so he could tell Fenir that he would have to stay at their house for a while.

45 minutes later

Team 7 were now walking along a road to Wave country. Naruto was in the front walking confidently. Sakura having failed to ask Sasuke on a date was asking Tazuna about his village. Sasuke being the brooder he is was doing exactly that. Kakashi and Takashi were in the rear one reading a certain book and the other walking along quietly both keeping a sharp lookout.

As Naruto kept on rambling about leaving the village Takashi noticed a puddle on the side of the road. 'Huh, hasn't rained in a couple of days. There's also some chakra around it.' Turning his head slightly to Kakashi he noticed a slight nod which meant he saw it to. "What should we do?" Takashi whispered. "Just wait. Let them reveal themselves first." Kakashi said. Takashi nodded and kept walking. When everyone passed the puddle, BAM!, two chains came out and tied both Jonin and ripped them to shreds.

"Senseis!" Sakura shouted horrified.

"Heh, two down four to go." One of the ninjas said. They were wearing black cloaks concealing their bodies and wore masks. On their hands they wore very sharp claws with chains. As they charged Naruto they had to dodge a few kunai thrown at them by Sasuke who was the only one who didn't freeze up. When the two Chunin charged again Naruto finally unfroze and attacked as well.(I can't remember the fight to well so I'm going to skip to the end.) Kakashi and Takashi had entered the scene and stopped the fight by tying the now named demon brothers to a tree. After getting somewhat useless information they left the scene after telling the genin to take Tazuna away and killed them for the bounty and caught up then rounded on Tazuna.

"Why did you lie to us?" Started Kakashi keeping his cool. Tazuna stuttered out something but was cut off by an angry Takashi, "You endangered our team. If my cousin, who just started out, was on this team you wouldn't be standing right now." He said with venom in his voice. Tazuna flinched, sighed, and started his tale. He said that their village was taken over by a tyrant named Gato. Gato was apparently taking all of their food, water, and sometimes women. He told them that since they were poor they didn't have enough money to pay for an A-rank mission. Then he said that if they finished this bridge, they would be able to prosper.

"That is still no excuse." Kakashi stated, "by all rights we could just leave. But we'll leave it up to our team." Turning to their team they waited for there response.

After a moment Naruto broke the silence, "I don't care who this guy is, I'm still going and thats final." Sasuke nodded not to be shown up by the dead last, and Sakura nodded to agree with Sasuke.

"Seems like were going." Kakashi said with his eye smile. Nodding they all took off.

Later at the river

"Wow, it's so big." Naruto whispered as the boatman steered the boat by the bridge. Him and Takashi were the only ones awake at the moment to keep watch.

"Yeah, it is isn't it." Takashi responded looking at it as well. They were crossing along leisurely trying not to cause suspicion. Naruto turned to his second sensei and asked, "So, why are you our sensei anyway?" Turning his unseen eyes at him he answered, "I was asked by the council to help train Sasuke." He stopped at the sour look from Naruto then continued, "but I was asked by the Hokage to help train you and Sakura." At that Naruto grinned that foxy grin and laughed a little. He yawned and Takashi told him to get some sleep and that he'll get them up. With that Naruto went to sleep.

Later a few miles from Wave

Team 7 and Tazuna were walking down a road just a few miles from their destination. As they were walking along Naruto suddenly threw a kunai into some bushes.

"Naruto-baka! Don't scare us like that." Sakura shouted as she punched him in the head to the ground. "But Sakura-chan there is something there." He responded. Going over to the bush cautiously Sakura peeled back the bushes to show a frightened white rabbit. "Naruto you idiot you scared it half to death!" Sakura yelled back to him. Naruto freaked out and went and hugged the rabbit while apoligizing to it over and over again.

While that was happening Kakashi and Takashi were thinking that it was weird that a white rabbit would be here in the middle of summer. Their eyes widened as they both shouted, "GET DOWN!!!!!!!!!!" They pulled down everyone as a gigantic sword flew overhead and cut into the tree in front of them. When they were getting up they heard a voice coming from above. "Heh heh heh, looks like your reflexes are better than I originally thought." They all stood and looked up and on a branch holding the sword with one hand was a man with no shirt and wrappings around his faceand a scratched mist headband on his head. "And here I thought it would be to easy."

"Zabuza Momichi, aka The Demon of the Mist. Also a missing nin of the Mist. What do you want.?" Kakashi said causing confused looks from the Genin. Laughing Zabuza continued, "If it isn't Sharingan no Kakashi and with him Akuma Ookami no Takashi. Heh, what a pleasure to meet you both. I'm just here for the old man. If you could just hand him over I'll be on my way." He answered with a chuckle.

"You'll never get him you browless freak!" Naruto yelled charging at him to show he was not afraid. He didn't get far when he was stopped by Kakashi. "Don't be a fool Naruto. Stand down and guard Tazuna let me and Takashi take care of it." "But, sens-" "Listen to him Naruto. You don't know what your getting into." Takashi interrupted him. Naruto looked like he wanted to argue more but reluctantly went back to his spot.

Chuckling again Zabuza said, "I guess we'll get to the good part now." Kakashi just raised his headband and revealed the Sharingan. "Ooh, I get to see the famed Sharingan. Must be my lucky day."

Over by Sasuke he was thinking, 'how did he get the Sharingan? Is he an Uchiha?' His thoughts were interrupted when Zabuza did a few hand signs and dissapeard just as a mist formed. "You like? Now, where should I hit first? The liver, heart, lungs, head, kidneys,vital arteries, or the spine. So many places to choose so little time." Came a voice from the mist. All the Genin were scared out of there mind. Sasuke was so scared that he took out a kunai just to end it all but was interrupted by Kakashi, "Don't worry Sasuke. I'll protect you." He said with an eye smile.

"Well, isn't that touching. But it's not them you should be worried about!" Just as that was said Zabuza came from out of the mist and cut Kakashi right in half. Sakura screamed and Zabuza was just about to come to them when a kunai came to his throat. "Guess you weren't paying attention were you?" Said the real Kakashi. They all looked down and saw a puddle of water where he once stood. "So, you copied my Mizu Bushin when I wasn't looking, clever. But not clever enough!" He shouted as Kakashi stabbed him only for him to dissolve into water. Zabuza jumped out of a few trees and went straight at Tazuna. But before he got to him he was stabbed by a couple of kunai. Takashi, who had been standing a few feet away sped and intercepted him. But when he looked he saw water instead of blood, and the clone dissolved into water as Kakashi was kicked out into the lake. Takashi went to help but was overrun by Mizu Bushin and was kicked away from the battle just as Kakashi was trapped inside a water dome.(AN:OK I'm skipping to the end of this fight so just imagine naruto and sasuke did the same things and takashi was able to take care of the clones.)

After Takashi got back, sporting a few scratches that were healing, he saw Kakashi standing over Zabuzas motionless body and what appeard to be a hunter nin. Before he could get there the hunter nin dissapeard with Zabuza. As soon as he got to the group he was told that the hunter nin had been looking for Zabuza and thanked them for finding him. "So what do we do now?" Sakura asked. "Well we first head to Tazuna-san's home to rest. Then we'll take things from there." Kakashi said tiredly. Just as he was about to take a step he passed out.

'This is going to be a long day.' Takashi thought as he hefted Kakashi's body on his shoulder and started following the others.

AN: Alright theres the first part. One more to go. I'm sorry if you wanted more but it's 1:00 here and I am tired. So until next time. Review! Datteboy!