The Drunken Maelstrom Of Konoha
Author's Note: Hello everybody! KrimsonFury2 is back with chapter 6 and also the beginning of The Wave Arc. I'm going to try to make this chapter as long as possible. Now last chapter, I listed the stats of Naruto and I believe I should've put 15 as the cap instead of 10. So here is the new stats for Naruto. Taijutsu: 12/15, Ninjutsu: 9/15, Kenjutsu: 11/15, and Genjutsu: 5/15. Okay, now on with the chapter.
Disclaimer: I Don't Own Naruto.
Chapter 6: Riding The Wave Part 1
Hatake Kakashi knew that taking his Genin team on a C-ranked mission was bad idea, but after training his team with teamwork exercises and stradegies, he thought they would be ready to face the real world that is the Shinobi World. He wanted to get Sakura out of her fangirl phase by showing that not everything was a fairytale and also Sasuke would be able bond with his teammates for this mission.
Boy was he wrong in that regard.
Since leaving the village gates hours ago, Sasuke didn't talk to any of his teammates and instead stare into space brooding with a scowl on his face, Sakura was staring at Sasuke with admiration and fonding over the Uchiha, though he wasn't paying any kind of attention to the girl and Kakashi was wondering for a second does Sakura get a clue that Sasuke wasn't interested in any girls at all. His last student Sai, who creeped him out with his fake smile and emotionless tendencies was a mystery that he had a feeling that Danzo had a hand in the kid being so weird and robotic in the first place.
Then when they were walking down the dirt road and saw a puddle, Kakashi knew it was a genjutsu seeing how it hasn't rained in months and wanted to test his Genin to see how they do in these type of situations. So he pretended to get killed as soon as the puddle sprang into action revealing The Demon Brothers of Kirigakure, Mezu and Gozu. Sakura screamed thinking her sensei was killed, but Sasuke and Sai immediately went into action against the missing-nin while Sakura protected their client. Sai was able to face Gozu on even grounds and defeat him while Sasuke was fighting Mezu for short period until Mezu was going for the kill, but Kakashi intervene with a lariat and the missing-nin was unconscious. Kakashi was proud that his Genin team was able to protect Tazuna, but now needed answers as to why The Demon Brothers would attacked them and then started to stared down Tazuna with anger.
After getting the information and asking his team if they want to continue with mission, which Sai and Sasuke agreed, though Saruka was a little relutant, but seeing her crush wanted to continue, she agreed as well. Before they continued walking down the dirt road to the boat that was waiting for them according to Tazuna, Kakashi informed them that he had to let the Hokage know about the situation and get some back-up for them. Kakashi then summon Pakkun to let the Hokage know about what has happen and request back-up.
That was hour ago and currently they had The Demon Brothers tied to a tree. Sasuke was sitting on the ground and brooding as always, Sakura was looking at Sasuke with hearts in her eyes, and Sai was drawing in his notebook and looking at his female teammate shaking his head in disappointment.
Sai may be emotionless, but he wasn't stupid either seeing Sakura fangirling at a time like this was pathetic at best. Then Team 7 heard footsteps coming from afar and see their backup. One was clearly a female with purple hair tied into a fan ponytail, a tan trenchcoat, a mesh shirt, shinguards, a orange skirt, and a snake pendent. And the other was a male with long blond spiky hair tied into a ponytail reaching his back, a dark navy poncho, bandages wrapped in his hands up to his forearms showing the kanji for 'Kitsune' and 'Mantis', beneath the poncho was a short sleeve grey shirt and black cargo pants with a kunai pouch on his right leg. It was Mitarashi Anko and Uzumaki Naruto, who stood before them with smirks on their faces and arms crossed.
"I see you called for back-up Scarecrow and this must be your team of brats." Anko said while Sasuke and Sakura glared at the woman while Sai simply raised an eyebrow. "Pfft. This is our back-up? The dobe and some bitch?" Sasuke said arrogantly only to shut up when Anko looked at him with a sweet smile and eyes closed, but what was scaring him was the killer intent coming off her. Naruto saw that look and took a few steps away from his sensei. "Care to repeat that brat?" Anko said while pulling out a kunai with a evil smile appearing on her face. Sasuke was shaking his head and sweating bullets. "I didn't say anything!" Sasuke said. Anko continued to stare at the Uchiha for a couple moments, but then let up on the killer intent and put the kunai away. Sasuke then had a scowl on his face and started to brood as well as glare at Anko, though she didn't seem to care. "So Kakashi-sensei, are you going to introduce us to the client?" Naruto asked looking at the silver haired Jonin.
"Well this is Tazuna the bridge builder and apparently from what he told me, world renowned billionaire, Gato, has hired the Demon Brothers and more than likely hired a few more missing-nin to kill Tazuna. So we gotta bring Tazuna to his house safely so he can start on finishing the bridge." Kakashi explained to Naruto. Naruto looked at the bridge builder and then noticed the sake bottle that was in Tazuna's hand and Naruto took out his canteen and raised it towards the bridge builder. "Don't worry about a thing old man, with me and Anko-sensei here now, any problem that decides to come at us will be dealt with a kunai and snakes from my sensei or my sickle and Drunken Fist from me amongst other things." Naruto said taken a drink of his sake.
"The kid is right Tazuna, the gaki and I have been on several missions that require some form of violence and killing from us, but our missions are always successful with the enemies buried 6 feet deep." Anko said with a smile that somewhat made Tazuna uneasy. Sakura didn't believed them and Naruto noticed her looking doubtful of their claim, so he took out the Bingo Book that he carries around and tossed it to Sakura. "Look on page 69." Naruto said with a laugh. Sakura and everyone else except for Anko and Sai sweatdropped at the joke, but she proceeded to turn the pages until she found the right page and saw Naruto's picture, which just so happen to be his ID photo. She look at him with her right eyebrow twitching and he simply shrugged with a smile.
Name: Uzumaki Naruto
Affilation: Konohagakure No Sato
Status: Genin
Alias: The Drunken Maelstrom Of Konoha
Rank: High C
Bounty: 950,000 from Amegakure No Sato Alive.
Approach With Caution!
"How did you managed to get that much of a bounty on your head from Amekagure?" Kakashi asked as he was shocked at the amount, sure he had a lot on his head from various villages, but it was impressive for a Genin. "From what I've heard, after me and my sensei's mission dealing with missing-nin Aoi Rokusho, who left Konoha a while ago and then Amegakure for some reason I have no clue of, Hanzo The Salamander heard that I can use my kusarigama at a level that remind him of himself and also my taijutsu style, which I'm currently at High Chunin to Low Jonin, he decided to me gave the alias, The Drunken Maelstrom Of Konoha." Naruto explained.
Kakashi was shocked that Hanzo The Salamander of all people seem to have taken an interest in his sensei's son. "Well I already got an ANBU unit to pick up the Demon Brothers so let's move out." Kakashi said. Everyone nodded and started to walk down the path.
(Later That Day):
The group was walking down through the dirt road and were keeping their senses opening, well everyone but Sakura and Tazuna weren't paying attention as Sakura was staring at Sasuke as always while Tazuna was drinking his bottle of sake. Sai was walking besides Kakashi while Naruto and Anko were discussing the basics of the mission, but Naruto was speaking in the insect language so that everyone else wouldn't know what he was saying to his sensei. Over the past month, Naruto, Anko, and one of the members of the Praying Mantis Clan named Saizor would practice talking and understanding each other when Naruto spoke in his summons language and Anko is the only person that knows what her student is saying, that way they can speak in private. "Who do you think we're going to encounter?" Naruto asked.
"I have a feeling we might encounter a swordsmen if them facing the Demon Brothers was any indication." Anko said. Naruto had to agree with his sensei and remember that Kiri had several missing nins around the Elemental Nations and some of them happen to be The Seven Swordsmen of The Mist. He was so caught up in his thoughts that Anko nudged him to let him know they arrived at the boat waiting for them.
(On The Boat):
It was a quiet foggy day for the group as they rode the boat and passed the unfinished bridge, which was an amazing sight to see for the shinobi. Naruto was sitting cross-legged with his arms crossed and eyes closed and talking to his tenant. He still remembers when he met the Kyuubi or Kura as she likes to be called.
(Flashback):
Naruto had just came back from training in the Forest Of Death practicing the advanced katas of Mantis style and he was ready to shower, relax, and meditate before going to sleep. Stripping out of his dirty clothes, he enter the shower and let the water cascade upon him washing the sweat away from all his hard work. After getting out the shower, he heated up and ate some food he had the night before and then sat in the lotus position to start his meditation. As he starts to relax and clear his mind of everything, he feels a pull and decides to see what was it.
(Naruto's Mindscape):
Naruto opens his eyes and notices that he's in a sewer with water filling the bottom part of the ground. Getting up from his sitting position and he starts walking through catacombs that surrounded the sewer until he found himself in front of huge cage bars with a seal in the middle. He could heavy breathing from behind the bars and when he got closer to the bars, big red eyes opened and it startled the blond Genin. Soon light start emulated the sewer and show the Nine-Tailed Fox Biju, The Kyuubi. Naruto was sweating from being this close to the most powerful Biju in existence, but staring into the eyes of the fox, he didn't seem to find any kind of evil intent nor malice whatsoever.
"It's about time you've finally came here Kit, I've been waiting for you for some time to talk to you." The Kyuubi spoke in a very deep, yet feminine voice. Naruto looked surprised and continued to stare at the Fox. "Why you been waiting for me and also not to sound sexist, but are you a female?" Naruto asked. Kyuubi sweatdropped at the second question, but was a logical question since most people think she was a male. "For the answer to your first question is well I wanted to apologized to you for the saddness and anger that the villagers caused you due to me, by the way wasn't my fault, it was the fault of that masked Uchiha who controlled me to destroy Konoha and when that one day happen, I tried my hardest to heal the wounds and yet I was only able to get rid of some of the scars and to answer to your second question, yes I am a woman." The Kyuubi explained.
Naruto was shocked by the information that he just received and was a little thankful that The Kyuubi helped him during his younger years despite the scars that been left behind. "Well thank you for healing me through those dark times I had as a child and if possible, I would like for us to work together so that maybe we can survive longer in the Shinobi world." Naruto suggested.
Kyuubi looked at her vessal for a couple minutes before her whole body started to shrink until she was in human form. She was at least 5'7 tall with red hair reaching down to her shoulders with fox ears pointing from the top along with a modest body with C-cup breasts and a heartshaped face to go with piercing red eyes and swishing nine tails behind her. She was also wearing red armor that looked similiar and reminded Naruto of the First and Second Hokage, but the only difference was that her armor was small compare to the two kages and underneath the armor was a long sleeve black mesh shirt with black pants and grey sandals to complete the look. The Kyuubi smiled and nodded her head to Naruto. "I would like that Naruto-kun, but first Kyuubi is only a title, my real name is Kurama or Kura for short."
(Flashback Ends):
Since then, Naruto and Kura have communicated with each other whether it be random things or Kura pointing stuff out during Naruto's training. "How has the new lightning jutsu you been creating coming around Naruto-kun?" Kura asked. "It is currently going well, but just gotta train some more until it's combat ready." Naruto said. Naruto and Kura have been discussing one of the many jutsu ideas that Naruto have came up with and what he has in mind right now was something that he wanted to test out. 'Hmm, maybe if we see the missing nin, I can test it out on him or her.' Naruto thought. Kura was glad that her vessal can at times show his violent side depending on if the situation called for it whether it was his taijutsu, kenjutsu, or ninjutsu.
Naruto was pulled from his thoughts as the boat came to a stop and got off the boat and thank the man for taking them and the boat man nodded his head and rowed his boat back into the fog. The group started to walk through the path, but noticed that it was getting foggier than ever to the point were everyone was getting tense. Naruto stopped for a minute and everyone else noticed him stopping. "Why you stop Naruto?" Anko asked. "I'm going to summon Matsunaga to scout out to see if any enemies are ahead." Naruto spoke in the insect language. Everyone except for Anko raised their eyebrows as they didn't understand what the blond said. "What did you say dobe?" Sasuke asked. Naruto looked the Uchiha with a smirk and replied. "I said I'm going to go scout to see who's ahead." Naruto then started walking further ahead before biting his thumb rubbing the blood on his forearm where the mantis kanji was located, going through hand seals before slamming his hand to the ground. With a puff of smoke came a small Hunter Green mantis with a yellow vest with the kanji for "scout" with blades as hands like the rest of the clan with a samurai hat. "How may I be of service Naruto-Sama?" Matsunaga asked in a soft voice. "Hey Matsunaga, can you go see if there are any High level Jonin or anybody waiting for us?" Naruto asked. "Of course Naruto-Sama, I'll be back in a second." Matsunaga spoke and flew away at fast speeds. Naruto then sat down lotus position and pulled his bandages down revealing a seal and while he waited for Matsunaga with the report, he was going to work on his lightning manipulation. He put chakra into the seal and summoned a big straw hat with metal plate with seals on top of the hat (Imagine Raiden's hat from Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance) and put it on his head and channel lightning chakra on top of the hat.
He closed his eyes and concentrated on his flowing chakra cousing through his body to make sure the lightning came to the hat. He's been doing this practice in his off time and he had the metal plate surrounding the hat with the seals on top made by Tenten's dad. Soon lightning started to dance around his body as Naruto concentrated harder with him gritting his teeth from it going around him crackling until he stop his concentration and lightning stopped. Breathing hard, he opened his eyes, and noticed that Matsunaga had came back on time and was waiting for him. "Any news Matsunaga?" Naruto asked and the small mantis nodded. "From what I saw only one Jonin was in the trees waiting for your group and the descripton was that he had bandages around his mouth with a huge sword along with a headband from Kirigakure." Matsunage said. Naruto tried to remember who would fit that description and then he scowled as he remembered who it was. "Thank you Matsunaga, you may return to the clan and tell everybody I said hello." Naruto said and Matsunaga nodded his head and poofed away.
'Of all the missing-nin that we had to encounter, we got "The Demon Of The Hidden Mist" Momochi Zabuza. In the words of Shikamaru, things just got troublesome.' Naruto thought shaking his head and started walking back to the group.
(The Group):
While Naruto went out to scout, Kakashi was pondering about the blond engima ever since Naruto and Anko arrived. One of the reasons is when Naruto starts talking differently to Anko, but to anyone else it sounded like gibberish. For Kakashi, he had always said to look underneath the underneath and if he were to guess, Naruto was speaking in a different language that only Naruto and Anko could understand. Before he could confirm anything, he sees Naruto walking back them, but this time he had a frown on his face and a straw hat with a metal plate on top.
"We should keep moving and be on guard, we're dealing with Momochi Zabuza." Naruto said with the utmost seriousness. Kakashi had a frown on his face as soon as he heard that name along with Anko. "Who is Momochi Zabuza?" Sakura asked. "He's a A-Ranked Missing-Nin From Kirigakure as well as a former member of The Seven Swordsmen Of The Mist wanted for attempted assassination of the Yondaime Mizukage, Yagura." Kakashi explained. Naruto decided to add his two cents into the conversation. "Can't say I blame him for what he did as Yagura in my opinion is a piece of shit for starting the Bloodline Purges in Kiri, damn the consequences." Naruto said.
"Well for now, let's move and keep an eye for Zabuza." Kakashi said and everyone nodded. They continued to walk until Naruto heard a rustle in the bushes and threw one of his kunai. He walked towards the bush and saw it was a white snow bunny, who was scared and terrified from the projectile. "Whoops, sorry little guy, I thought you was a tall eyebrowless swordsmen." Naruto said petting the small animal, but unknown to everyone, Zabuza was in the trees with his sword in throwing position as well as having a tick mark on his forehead from the comment about not having eyebrows.
'I got that from my fellow swordsmen and now this punk Genin is talking shit about them now. Gaki, you fucked up!' Zabuza ranted his head. He then threw his sword at high speeds, causing the group to duck from getting their heads cut off and they saw who was the perpetrator. "Now I see why the Demon Brothers had trouble since they into Copycat Kakashi and I see you have the Snake Mistress, Mitarashi Anko with you as well, but first.." Zabuza said as he got off the handle of his sword and rip it out of the tree and pointed it at the group. "Blondie, your dead for talking about my eyebrows so I'm going to gut you like a fish and will enjoy spilling your blood all over the ground" Zabuza said with a hint of killer intent.
Naruto had to adjust his straw hat as he took out his kusarigama with the long chain attached to his custom kunai. "Well Zabuza, I may be a Genin, but I have been making a name for myself around the Nations, so if it's a fight you want..." as lightning started to form on his hat and around his body, Naruto continued. "Bring It On!" Naruto shouted and rushed at the former Kiri Nin in high speeds.
AN: Finally done with this chapter. Wasn't much action in this chapter, but the next one will have fighting as well as darker aspects that I'm not going to spoil. Thanks everyone for your patience I hope you enjoy this chapter.