A/N: This is my first try as an author so bear with me. English isn't my first language so don't hesitate to pm me with any fault you find, I am always eager to learn.


I'm not that fast with the chapter releases during the week since well everyone's got to work sometimes :)

I'm glad people seemed pleased with the abilities I showed last chapter for Naruto. Now let's get back with the story original timeline.

Without further delay, welcome to the next chapter of Kaze No Kami.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.


Chapter 7: The Birth of a Legend


Wave Country – Tazuna's house

Kurenai knocked at the door from the house Hinata saw team 7 enter and ten seconds later a woman opened the door.

"Yes? How may I help you miss?" she asked politely to Kurenai.

"Are you related to Tazuna the bridge builder mam?" said Kurenai.

"Yes, I'm his daughter" replied Tsunami as she took notice of team 8's leaf headbands.

"We are team 8 of Konoha sent in reinforcement for the remaining of this mission, may I speak with the other team leader please?" Kurenai added.

"Yes of course please come in" said Tsunami as she let team 8 go inside the house.

When team 8 made their way inside the house, they saw Kakashi and the rest of team 7 in the living room. The cyclops was reading an orange book, Shino was sitting at a table keeping company to a young boy, Sakura was fawning over Sasuke and finally Sasuke was, well he was doing nothing but looking out the window with a scowl on his face.

Seeing them enter Kakashi stood up from the couch he was comfortably sitting in, "What are you doing here with your team Kurenai?" he asked visibly surprised by their arrival.

"I need to speak with you privately Kakashi, can we step out of the house for a minute or two?" replied the red eyed jonin.

"Sure let's go" answered Kakashi and they both went back outside the house.


Outside the house

As soon as they were both outside the house, Kurenai handed Kakashi a scroll with the Hokage seal on it and explained to him the situation and how she was put in command of the mission for the remaining of the mission.

Kakashi was not pleased but there was little he could do about it, the message he received from inside the scroll was clear and effectively gave Kurenai full authority over him on the mission.

"Very well you're in charge Kurenai" he finally said after giving her back the scroll.

"Good, let's go back inside. I need you to explain to me what happened from when you and your team left Konoha to the moment team 8 entered in this house." said Kurenai as she made her way back inside Tazuna's house.


Meanwhile inside the house

"Hey there team 7 how's it going?" asked Kiba in a friendly manner.

"What are you and your looser team doing here dog breath?" said Sasuke as Sakura followed after him.

Kiba chose to ignore the Sasuke much to the prick's ire and his banshee.

"We've been here training for a week since we had to fight that missing nin from Kirigakure Inuzuka-san" replied the only polite member of team 7.

"I already told you to call me Kiba, Shino" answered the Inuzuka heir.

Naruto's ears perked up at the mention of a fight and meeting missing nins "Who was the missing nin? Was he strong? What move did he use?"

As Naruto was pestering Shino with his questions, the door of the house opened again and Kurenai made her way back inside the room followed by Kakashi.

"As a matter of fact Naruto, I was just about to let Kakashi here debrief me about the situation of the mission. Why don't we all get comfortable and listen to his report?" said Kurenai more like an order than a question.

Each members of team 8 took a seat at the table and let Kakashi give his report about the mission.

He told them about how between Konoha and Wave Country they were first ambushed by the demon brothers, two missing nin from Kiri with chunin ranks. The fight was not impressive as Shino and Sasuke quickly took them out.

Kurenai's eyes widened when Kakashi mentioned Momochi Zabuza, missing nin from Kiri with jonin rank. She explained to her team that we was a old member of Kirigakure elite swordsmen and the rumors about him murdering all his graduating class fellow students.

Naruto wasn't impressed by tittle or ranks, he knew ranks did not always reveal a ninja's worth, hell he just had to compare himself to Sakura, they were both genin and he probably could find more than a hundred ways to kill her in his sleep.

What impressed Naruto was the fight in itself between team 7 and the Kirigakure No Kijin.

Flashback: Wave country border – One week ago

Team 7 just arrived in Wave when Shino suddenly launched one of his kunai in the direction of the woods.

Turned out he only spotted a stray rabbit but seconds later Kakashi suddenly ordered everyone to take cover as a giant flying sword made its towards them. They narrowly escaped the sword, when they looked up they saw the culprit.

In front of them stood Momochi Zabuza, the Kirigakure No Kijin.

Team 7 quickly took position around Tazuna and Kakashi engaged the demon of the mist.

The fight was pretty even up to the point where Kakashi got trapped in one of Zabuza's suiton jutsu.

Kakashi ordered team 7 to retreat with Tazuna but Sasuke and Sakura stood there unable to move as Zabuza made some mizu bunshins and flared his KI in their direction. The two just fainted after seconds of exposure.

Seeing this Shino suddenly took Tazuna with him and ran backwards towards Fire country.

Zabuza had to applaud the young man for staying conscious and having the clarity to continue protect his client while under high stress. Nevertheless he had a job to do and used his closest clone to run after them through the mist he created to fight Kakashi.

He easily caught up with them and as he used his enormous cleaver to cut the two, he got surprised as his two targets exploded in a cloud of bugs.

"Mushi Bunshin no jutsu" called Shino as stepped out of behind a tree.

"Impressive, boy" admitted Zabuza before adding "It doesn't change the fact that you will soon die"

He was about to charge again when all his clone dispelled.

"It seems you didn't notice my trap, you underestimated me Zabuza-san" said shino as hundreds of his bugs were seen swarming around the spots where the Zabuza clones stood seconds ago.

"Your mist jutsu was a nice cover for my plan" finished Shino as he launched a dozen shuriken towards the true Zabuza who was still holding Kakashi with his jutsu.

Zabuza had no choice but to release his jutsu, effectively allowing Kakashi to resume their fight.

After that Kakashi quicky took the advantage, Zabuza having wasted a lot of chakra to create his water clones. The fight's ending was quite anti climatic as a hunter nin made his appearance and took the kill, though Kakashi explained that it was probably an act from one of Zabuza's back-up.

End of flashback

"That was a really impressive strategy you used Shino, you saved all your team and Tazuna's life with your action" said Kurenai.

Every member of team 8 had to agree with their sensei while Sasuke was fuming with jealousy, he an Uchiha had to watch from the side lines as a lowly bug user took all the glory.

"Thank you Kurenai-sensei, I did the best I could" answered Shino.

"Alright Kakashi, tell me where you are with your team training, what are their affinity and how many jutsu do they have." asked Kurenai.

The cyclops began to sweat as he looked at his team "Hmm, I only know that Sasuke has a fire affinity and I just started them on the tree walking exercise today ..." he finally answered.

"WHAT! You had them for more than a month and you only started the tree walking exercise today? In hostile territory and with at least one jonin level opponent after your ass?" shouted Kurenai with anger and disgust in her voice.

Kakashi could only nod at the crude by pretty accurate description of the situation.

"Alright … I can't use them, well maybe except for Shino here but the rest will stay here and protect Tazuna's family with you while my team and I will protect Tazuna on the bridge until it is completed." declared Kurenai.

"How dare you treat me like that woman! I'm a Uchiha I deman..." Sasuke was about to continue his rant when Hinata suddenly appeared in front of him and hit some of his pressure points, instantly preventing him from saying another word.

"It would be best for you to stop right there Uchiha-san, I will not tolerate you insulting sensei in my presence" announced Hinata before adding "Are we clear Uchiha-san?" as she released his pressure points.

Hearing no answer from the avenger she took another step towards him but he quickly moved back "Whatever you're just a team of losers" he said as he went back upstairs.

"That was impressive Hinata-chan!" exclaimed Kiba as Akamaru jumped of his head and landed in Hinata's arms.

"Thanks Kiba-kun" replied a blushing heiress.

Seeing that she said everything she had to say Kurenai dismissed everyone and they all went to sleep.


Wave Country – Unnamed bridge

It had been a week since team 8 arrived in Wave Country. The week passed quickly and the bridge was almost completed.

However, when they arrived this morning they saw a thick mist covering the entire bridge and all the workers were unconscious on the ground.

"Formation!" Commanded Kurenai as team 8 plus Shino took position around Tazuna.

"What's this I expected to fight the Copy ninja not some woman and her children" said a deep male voice as Zabuza appeared in the middle of the bridge with his associate still dressed in a hunter nin uniform.

"Hey Aburame boy, where's your sensei?" asked Zabuza recognizing Shino from their previous fight.

"You don't need to concern yourself with Kakashi as you will die here on this bridge today Zabuza" replied Kurenai miffed at the sexist remark from earlier.

Zabuza smirked and took out his sword and his apprentice prepared to attack too.

"Hinata, Kiba you take the fake hunter nin, Naruto you're with me we will take down Zabuza, Shino you guard Tazuna" said Kurenai.

"Hai!" everyone said as they took their positions.

"Haku do not fail me" said Zabuza to his apprentice who nodded.


With Hinata & Kiba vs Haku

"Cover me and analyze his style Hinata" said Kiba as he charged at Haku with Akamaru behind him.

Hinata nodded and activated her bloodline "Byakugan" and prepared to assist Kiba.

The fight was pretty even, Kiba was more powerful but Haku was faster. Akamaru covered Kiba's blind spots as he deflected every senbon thrown at his master from behind.

"You are good, better than your comrades from the other team" said Haku to Kiba.

"It would be pretty hard to be lower than the Duck ass and his fangirl Banshee" replied Kiba with a smirk.

"So true, but I can't stay here with you all day, I have to go assist Zabuza-sama" said Haku as he started to go through Hand signs.

"Hyoton: Makyo Hyo Sho" said Haku he used a dome made of ice to trap Kiba, Akamaru and himself inside.

Hinata was about to go inside and help her friends when Kiba stopped her "Wait Hinata, Don't come inside unless you see I can't handle him, we still don't know what he can do". Hinata nodded, she could still see inside the dome with her doujutsu but she was worried for her friends.

"A good call again but once inside this dome no one can escape the next jutsu" announce Haku.

"Hyoton: Sensatsu Suisho" he called his jutsu as thousands of ice senbon were thrown from all directions towards Kiba and Akamaru.

Kiba could only push Akamaru away as he took the full blast of death needles aimed at him.

"I'm sorry buddy, you will have to protect Hinata for me" said a very weakened Kiba to his companion.

Akamaru refused to move from his spot and as Haku prepared to move forward a blue blur flashed in front of him.

Hinata was enraged at what she just saw, Kiba was taken down by a shower of senbon and the opponent was also about to finish Akamaru. She made a move to attack Haku, but the ice ninja jumped backwards immediately and fused with his ice dome.

Haku started to throw senbon randomly to test hinata's defense and saw that she had quite an easy time blocking his senbon.

Hinata decided she had no time to loose and Kiba needed emergency treatment. She tried to think of a way to defeat the ice dome technique and then remembered her training with team 8 during their journey to Wave Country.

Flashback: Konoha forest – two weeks ago

"Okay, let's take a break, we'll stop here for the night" said Kurenai to her team as they made their way to Wave Country.

"Hinata, Kiba come here, I want you two to perform a little test for me to know how to train you in ninjutsu properly" she said to them as the camp was ready.

Turned out Kiba had earth affinity while Hinata had a water affinity like Kurenai.

"I'm sorry Kiba I don't have earth affinity like you but once we get back I can easily get you scrolls on earth elemental manipulation or a teacher to help you" said Kurenai to her student.

"It's okay sensei, I can wait, I will go sleep good night" said Kiba as he entered his tent.

"Hinata come here I will show you how to start on water elemental chakra manipulation" she said to her only female student.

End of flashback

She did not have much time to practice but she had to try, it was her only chance to help Kiba.

"His ice dome is mostly made of water, it seems breaking one of those mirrors won't do any good as it reforms pretty quickly" analyzed the heiress.

"I only have one shot at this before he realize I can break his ice and then it will be a lot harder to catch him off guard" she finished her plan and prepared to attack, timing herself precisely with her enemy movements using her Byakugan.

As Haku was about to use the Sensatsu Suisho again, that second of preparation cost him dearly as Hinata instantly got in front of him while he was still inside on the mirror composing his ice dome.

Hinata coated her palm with suiton chakra, the only thing she had managed to do so far with suiton manipulation chakra and hit the mirror with all she had in a single Juken strike.

She successfully escaped the dome and continued on her path to seal all the tenketsu she could of her opponent.

Before he realized what was happening Haku was immobilized on the ground unable to get up.

"That was magnificent kunoichi-san, you win I cannot continue the fight now finish me" said Haku with no emotion in his voice.

Hinata was shocked, shocked that she managed to beat this enemy, but also shocked that he just asked her to kill him. She was very tempted to honor his wish but she then heard Akamaru barked behind the dome and she saw that Kiba was starting to come through. She understood what the fake hunter nin tried to do and deactivated her Byakugan.

"The fight is over, I will spare your life as you spared my friend's life" she said as she went back to help Kiba stand up.

"I'm sorry Zabuza-sama ..." thought Haku as he stayed there on the ground.


Meanwhile with Kurenai & Naruto vs Zabuza

"Talk about a disappointment, I get to fight a woman and a boy" said Zabuza as he stood before them.

"I'm the one who wants to cry here, I was so excited to get to fight the Kiri no Kijin and what do I get? A eyebrow-less freak with a very doubtful sense of fashion" replied Naruto with a smirk.

"I see you seem to really take care about your sword too, couldn't you chose something even bigger than that to wield you freak?" he added before a huge grin appeared on his face " … unless it is to compensate for you know ..." he finished using his fingers in the universal sign to represent a small manhood.

Kurenai couldn't stop herself from laughing at the joke while Zabuza was red with anger and launched himself at the pair.

"Cover me Naruto while I prepare my jutsu" said Kurenai.

"Roger that sensei" answered the blond before taking out his kunai and activating his Futago Kaze Ken no jutsu.

As Zabuza arrived on them Naruto took position in front of Kurenai with his twin blades and tried to block the demon's sword like he did against Yugao.

He was not prepared to face the strength behind the hit as Zabuza pushed him back and almost broke his guard.

Naruto then went on the offense charging his Kaze no Yoroi to stand a chance against the enemy jonin, as he made his first slash he was surprised that Zabuza had accurately read his reach, unlike Yugao the very experienced swordsman recognized Naruto's technique and evaded the cut.

"Did you really think you could cut me with those puny kunai of yours brat?" taunted Zabuza even though internally he was quite impressed with the young shinobi's skills. "That was close, he would have pierced my lungs with that slash if I had not seen a technique looking like that before"

Naruto tried to stay calm but it was proving to be very difficult as his opponent just evaded one of his most powerful attack. "He has even better kenjutsu senses than Yugao-sensei. I can't beat him in a kenjutsu only fight but that sword of his, I don't have anything else to block it" Naruto cursed as he remembered Yugao's advice about his defense problem.

Zabuza was about to slash at the boy again when his surrounding suddenly felt weird.

"Magen: Jyubaku Satsu" Kurenai activated her genjutsu, Zabuza found himself trapped against a tree that came out of nowhere, Kurenai was about to finish him when Zabuza suddenly freed himself and used the momentum to take his sword and cut her pretty deeply.

"H-How did you?" Kurenai had troubles to stay up as Naruto ran to her and tried to stabilize his teacher.

They then saw that Zabuza had a deep gash on his right leg and Kurenai understood what happened.

"He used pain to get out of my genjutsu Naruto, I'm sorry but you have to stall him while I try to heal myself" said Kurenai and Naruto nodded.

"As if I'd let you do that, now die!" said Zabuza as he launched his jutsu "Suiton: Suiryudan No jutsu" and a gigantic dragon made of water rose from the river below the bridge.

The water dragon was about to reach its target when the wind around Naruto and Kurenai suddenly picked up, "This is the first time I use it, I could never verify its efficiency but I have no choice, even if it will deplete me of almost all my chakra reserves, I have to do it in order to protect my precious ones" thought Naruto before calling his next jutsu.

"Futon: Higuma Otoshi" he called in his mind as the wind in front of him violently picked up, Zabuza's water dragon instead of hitting them changed its path following Naruto's wind and rose into the sky, it then moved backwards and started to fall again directly over Zabuza.

"Damn I can't move away with that leg" thought Zabuza as his own water dragon flew toward him at an incredible speed, most likely boosted by the blond mysterious wind technique and well … gravity from falling from so high.

Zabuza was washed away by his own technique and sent to the far end of the bridge where he collided into a solid stone structure. Naruto seeing the result, sported a smile before loosing consciousness and falling into Kurenai's arms.

"No chakra left, can't move my leg properly and Haku most likely lost or he would have already interfered in this fight." Analyzed Zabuza as he felt a Kunai near his neck, Shino ready to finish him.

"Is this supposed to be a joke Zabuza?" called a new voice Zabuza immediately recognized from behind the mist.

"Gato ..." said Zabuza.

"Well it's all good, in the end I never planned to pay you anyway" replied the midget before adding "kill them all then we'll go for the village" he ordered his mercenary troops.

As Gato's men were about to advance, an arrow suddenly hit the floor in front of them.

On the other side of the bridge, Team 7 and all the villagers of Wave stood armed with what they could find ready to defend their village.

"We figured you would need some help after two of his goons tried to kidnap Tsunami" explained Kakashi before he charged at the mercenary with Sasuke.

Gato's men stood no chance against a fully rested Kakashi and even Sasuke got his first kill during the fight, taking down Gato himself. Sakura though just stayed behind to help the injured.

After that the trash was cleared, the Konoha ninja approached Zabuza who had the time to reunite with the downed Haku.

"Alright finish us we can't escape anyway" said Zabuza.

Kakashi was about to oblige when Naruto awoke "Stop!" he said as he stood up.

"This is my fight, I get to decide of its end as I'm the one who stopped him" said Naruto.

"Then finish me" repeated Zabuza.

"No we have no need to fight anymore today" replied Naruto.

"Are you sure Naru..." started Kakashi but Kurenai stopped him "Let my student finish Kakashi"

Kakashi could do nothing as Kurenai was his superior officer during this mission.

"Your contractor betrayed you, you are not bound to finish your mission any longer." continued Naruto.

"It changes nothing, we shall still be enemies tomorrow when we meet again on another battlefield." replied Zabuza.

"We are still enemies right now Zabuza-san, but even two enemies can show respect for each other. I respect your skill as a swordsman, you are the best that I could face so far and I actually hope that we meet again on the battlefield" said Naruto as everyone around him was impressed at the level of maturity he showed.

Zabuza's eyes widened as he listened to the young shinobi's words before him, he closed his eyes, took a deep breath then spoke to Naruto.

"Your generosity and your skill shall reach your enemies even before you have had the chance to meet them on the battlefield young man. " he said cryptically before he took Haku's immobilized body over his shoulder and shunshined out of the area.

"I'm proud of you Naruto, and you too Kiba, Hinata and Shino" said Kurenai as everyone made their way back to the village.

One week later, Team 7 and 8 made their way back to Konoha.


Meanwhile in Konoha – Hokage office

"What the hell?" asked Sarutobi as he dropped the newly edited Bingo book on his desk.

On the opened page could be read:

Name: Uzumaki Naruto

Nickname : Konoha's Kaze No Kami

Age : 12-15 ?

Rank : A

Status : Genin

Main attribute: Kenjutsu & Ninjutsu

Affinities : Wind

Bloodline : ?

Description : Has a very high affinity to the Wind element

Defeated Momochi Zabuza the Kirigakure No Kijin in Wave Country

Action : Approach with caution

Zabuza did indeed honor his oath on the bridge, for right now the entire Elemental Nations could witness the birth of a new legend, the Kaze No Kami was born.

A/N: Slightly longer than usual but I could not bring myself to stop the chapter in the middle of the fight. I'm not too sure about what kind of data are actually displayed in the bingo book or even if the book is different from each village's perspective. Any suggestion on that matter would be welcome.

Took the liberty to inspire myself from some sentences I heard in movies for some on the things said in the dialogues in this chapter.

As usual Read & Review please.


New jutsu:

Well everything was "classic" except the one Naruto used

Futon: Higuma Otoshi , should be translated as the Bear's Drop I'm not sure, (cyber cookie to those who can guess where that comes from) Creates a strong rising wind current around Naruto to allow him to deflect then send back some types of elemental jutus to their original caster.