Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or its plot/characters. I only own my OCs and my plot and any changes made to the plot of the anime.

Don't give me hell for Kaminari not fighting in the battle cause Sakura didn't do shit either.

Also I think I'm going to make this story have slight Gaara/OC in it too.

Little note: Everything written in this chapter (and the next) is intentional. Meaning anyone ignoring or 'putting down' Kaminari was supposed to happen. I didn't forget to add the characters interacting with her, I did it on purpose. You'll see why soon.

IMPORTANT PLEASE READ: Okay this has been a problem lately so let me explain something. Kaminari is a chunin in rank in another village becasue of something that isn't present currently.

In other words, she is currently a genin level just like the others. Some outside force/something about her made her chunin but it's not present until Chapter 8. If you're going to stop reading because she's not fighting, skip to chapter 8 and maybe 9 then decide if you wanna stop.

I would explain this better but it would be a big spoiler.


Naruto threw the kunai and Zabuza took his hand out of the water prison to avoid being hit but ended up getting a cut under his right eye. The water prison collapsed causing Kakashi to fall into the water below and Zabuza spun the shuriken he still had in his other hand.

"I'll destroy you!" There was a splash of blood as Kakashi stopped the spinning with his hand. Naruto fell into the water. Kakashi glared at Zabuza making his eyes widen. Sakura gasped happily.

"Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto came out of the water gasping.

"Naruto, that was an excellent plan." Kakashi said. "You've really grown, haven't you?" Naruto laughed.

"I knew I couldn't beat him with my shadow clones, that was just to distract him. While he fought the clones I turned into the demon wind shuriken. He didn't know what to do, believe it! I used one of the clones to transform into the shuriken and when I threw it to Sasuke it looked like a real shuriken. Sasuke could tell it was me in a second. He spun around so now one could see and pulled out his own shuriken. Now there were two shuriken; one was real one was me. I hid in the shadow of the read shuriken and my target was the real Zabuza of course I knew that I couldn't fight Zabuza myself, that wasn't in the game plan. I just wanted to get in there and break up his water prison. I didn't know his clone would be wreaked too. Ha! That was a bonus, believe it!"

"Don't brag, you just lucked out." Sasuke said.

"The whole thing was just a fluke!" Tazuna shouted.

"Haa… I got distracted and lost my grip on the water prison." Zabuza said.

"Don't flatter yourself." Kakashi said. "You weren't distracted, you were forced to let go."

"Huh." Naruto giggled in the water still.

"Your technique worked on me once," Kakashi said. "But it won't work again."

"Huh."

"So what's it gunna be?"

"Sakura you know what to do." Sasuke said to her. She nodded. The two of them put their arms out to block Tazuna. Zabuza grunted.

"Huh?" He closed the shuriken and pushed against Kakashi's hand. Kakashi pushed it away sending it flying. The two jumped back off the water away from each other. They landed on the water and Zabuza started reciting hand signs as he did them Kakashi started to mimic him perfectly until they were doing it in sync.

"Water style: Water dragon Jutsu!" They said in unison as two identical water serpents rose from the water and wove themselves together a few times before attacking the other. They created a large wave which pushed Naruto under. Naruto came back up with a gasp and Zabuza was pushing his sword against Kakashi's kunai. They separated and ran around each other. Kakashi made the same moves as Zabuza did.

"He's not just following." Tazuna said. "He moves the same way at the same time."

"How's he doing that?" Sakura asked. "How, Sasuke?"

"Going to do next?" Kakashi asked finishing Zabuza's thought. "It makes you furious doesn't it?"

"Ha, all you're doing is copying me. Like a monkey." Zabuza said.

"You can't beat me with cheap tricks." They said in unison. "I'll crush you."

"When I finish with you you'll never open that monkey mouth again." Zabuza said doing rapid hand signs, Kakashi did the same. A hazy image appeared behind Kakashi which faded into a copy of Zabuza.

"Water Style: Giant Vortex Jutsu!" The Sharingan began to spin.

"What?!" Water spun around Kakashi before becoming a giant vortex and attacking Zabuza. "Impossible! Ahhh!" The water pushed Naruto to shore where he grabbed onto a branch. The vortex pushed Zabuza against a tree and a bunch of kunai were thrown at him and embedded themselves in his arms and legs. Kakashi was in the branch above.

"You're finished." He said. The water retreated back to the lake.

"How?!" Zabuza looked up at Kakashi. "Can you see into the future?"

"Yes." Kakashi said. He raised his kunai. "This is your last battle ever." Suddenly two needles were thrown and ended up in Zabuza's neck, splashing blood out. Everyone looked surprised and looked over to see a masked figure in a tree branch. Zabuza fell over and the figure giggled a rather feminine sounding giggle.

"You were right, it was his last battle." The figure said. Naruto climbed out of the water completely and looked up at the figure before looking down at Zabuza. Kakashi jumped down next to Zabuza. He felt his neck for a pulse and sighed.

"No vital signs." Kakashi said. He looked up at the figure.

"Thank you; I've been tracking Zabuza for a long time," They said bowing. "waiting for this chance to finally take him down."

"By your mask I see that you're a tracker ninja from the village hidden in the mist." Kakashi said.

"Impressive. You're well informed.

"A tracker!" Naruto said sliding to stand in front of his team mates and Tazuna.

"Naruto you don't even know what that is." Sakura said. "You missed the lesson on it as usual. Tracker ninja have a special role, try comin' ta class sometime." Sakura went on to explain about tracker ninja.

"That's correct; I'm a member of the elite tracking unit of the village hidden in the mist." The figure said. "It was my duty to stop Zabuza." Naruto ran forward and looked from Zabuza's body to the boy in the tree.

"What is this? Err! Who do you think you are?" Naruto called up while pointing at the boy. "Did you hear me?"

"Easy Naruto." Kakashi said standing. "He's not our enemy."

"Huh?" Naruto looked at Kakashi. "That's not the point! Did you see what he did just like that? Zabuza was huge and powerful like some kind of monster." Kakashi walked over to Naruto. "And this kid, who's no bigger than me, he brought down Zabuza in one move like it was nothing. I mean what does that make us? We're just fumbling around, we don't know anything. How can I accept that?!" Naruto looked up at Kakashi who stood beside him.

"Well, even if you don't accept it, still" Kakashi leaned down. "It did happen, Naruto." He put a hand on Naruto's head and messed up his hair. "In this world there are kids who are younger than you and yet stronger than me." Naruto just looked annoyed. The boy in the reach stretched out his arm and was gone in a swirl of wind before he reappeared next to Zabuza's body. He lifted him onto his shoulder with one arm around him.

"Your struggle is over for now." The boy said. "I must deal with the remains. There are many secrets in this body, they must not be allowed to get into the wrong hands. Please excuse me." He made a hand sign with one hand. "Farewell." He was gone.

"He disappeared!" Naruto said. Kakashi put his headband back down over his eye. Naruto ran over to where the boy was.

"He's gone Naruto." Kakashi said. "Let it go." Naruto fell to his knees and began to punch the ground.

"What are we doing here?! We're nothing! I can't believe it!"

"Naruto." Sakura said. Kakashi walked over and grabbed Naruto's arm.

"As ninja the things we encounter are never easy. Save your anger for the next enemy." Kakashi let go and Naruto caught his breath. Kakashi turned to face the others. "We haven't completed our mission yet. We still have to get the bridge builder to his bridge." Tazuna laughed.

"Sorry I caused all this trouble for ya, but uh, you can rest at my house when we get to the village."

"Alright, let's get a move on." Kakashi said. Naruto got up as Kakashi started to walk. Kakashi took two steps before freezing and falling over.

"Kashi!" Kaminari called as everyone ran over.

"Wh-what happened?" Sakura asked.

"Kakashi-sensei." Naruto said. "Uh- Kakashi-sensei!" Kaminari got to her knees and felt his pulse.

"Kashi." Kaminari sighed in relief. "He's alive he just exhausted himself. We'll have to carry him the rest of the way." She said looking at the others.

"Leave that to me." Tazuna said as he lifted Kakashi up and put him over his shoulder. "Come on, the village isn't that far."


The group came to the village and to Tazuna's house. He put Kakashi in a futon and his daughter, Tsunami, looked over him. The group walked into the room a few minutes after Kakashi had woken up. Naruto gasped.

"Look, the sensei's coming around." Naruto said. Sakura came over and kneeled beside Kakashi.

"Listen, sensei, your Sharingan is amazing and everything but if it puts that much strain on you maybe it's not worth it." Sakura said.

"Sorry." Kakashi said.

"Huh, well, he did take down one of the most powerful ninja assassins so we'll be safe for a while." Tazuna said.

"Right but, you know that boy with the mask? What about him?"

"He's from the elite tracking unit of the village hidden in the mist. Those masks are only worn by the most elite shinobi.

"What exactly do they do?" Sakura asked. Naruto, Sasuke and Kaminari all sat down.

"The ANBU black obs, also known as the inferno squad, destroy all traces of a rouge ninja's corpse." Kakashi said. "The shinobi's body contains many secrets: ninjutsu, chakra, special medicines used on his body. These are the secrets of his village. If his enemies find them his people would be in grave danger. For instance, if I were to die at the hands of an enemy he would try to analyze my Sharingan. In the worst case my entire jutsu could be stolen and used against our home village. It is the sacred duty of the shinobi trackers to prevent this. To keep the village secrets safe. If a ninja betrays his village the trackers hunt him down eliminate him and obliterate every trace of his existence. That's their specially." Kakashi said. Kakashi was sitting up and had a hand over his eye.

"Hey are you okay?" Naruto asked. "Sensei."

"Hm? Oh yeah, to finish what I was saying, tracker ninja deal with the body immediately, on the spot, so there's no room for error."

"Is that, really important?" Sakura asked.

"Think about it, do you remember what that tracker did with Zabuza's body.

"We don't know what he did." Sakura said.

"He took it away." Kaminari said.

"Exactly, but why?" Kakashi asked. "He should have worked on Zabuza right there. As quickly as possible think of the weapons he used for the take down. Do you remember what they were?"

"Throwing needles." Sasuke said. "No way."

"Exactly." Kakashi said. "None of it adds up."

"What are you all yammering about, you demolished that assassin." Tazuna said.

"Here's the truth:" Kakashi said. "Zabuza's still alive."

"HUH!?"

"But we saw his body! Believe it!" Naruto said.

"That doesn't mean he was dead." Kaminari said.

"Kakashi sensei you checked him yourself you said that his heart stopped." Sakura said.

"His heart did stop." Kakashi said. "But that was just a temporary state to simulate death. The weapons that tracker used are called senbon they can pierce deeply but rarely kill unless they hit a vital organ, not in the neck. They're modified from needles used for medical treatments like acupuncture. Trackers are trained to know every detail of the human body causing the heart to stop temporarily while keeping the body alive is an easy matter for them. First he carried Zabuza's body away, even though it's much heavier than he is second he used senbon which have a precise affect but are rarely fatal. From these two factors we can conclude that the tracker wasn't trying to destroy Zabuza, he was trying to save him."

"Come on, you're over thinking this aren't you?" Tazuna asked.

"Encountering suspicion the ninja prepares quickly hesitation leads to disaster. Every shinobi knows this saying." Naruto looked excited to hear that Zabuza was still alive.

"Sensei, you said prepare quickly but how can we do that when you can barely move?" Sakura asked. Kakashi chuckled which confused her.

"I can still train you."

"Hold on! A little last minute training won't make us strong enough to fight Zabuza! You could barely defeat him even with your Sharingan. We have to be reasonable about this."

"Sakura, why was I able to stop Zabuza?" Kakashi asked. "Because you all helped me. You've grown. Naruto."

"Huh?"

"You've grown the most." Kakashi said with an eye smile.

"So you noticed, Kakashi-sensei. Now things are gunna get better, believe it."

"I don't believe it and nothing is gunna be good!"

"Huh?" Everyone turned to see a little boy in the door way.

"Who are you?!" Naruto asked pointing at the boy.

"Ahh Inari where've you been?" Tazuna asked. The boy ran over to him.

"Welcome back grandpa!" The boy hugged him.

"Inari that was very rude." His mother scolded. "These ninja helped your grandpa and brought him here safely."

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm rude to them too." Tazuna said.

"Mom don't you see these people are gunna die." Inari said to his mom. "Gato and his men will come back and find them and wipe them out."

"What did you say brat?" Naruto asked jumping up. "Listen up, you know what a super ninja is well that's me only a lot better. I'm gunna be Hokage. This Gato or Blato or whatever he's called is no match for a real hero like me."

"Ha, there's no such thing as a hero. You're just fulla stupid ideas!"

"What'd you say?!" Naruto started to go over to him but Sakura held him back. "Arrrg!"

"Naruto calm down!"

"If you want to stay alive you should go back where you came from." Inari said before walking away.

"Inari, wait, where are you going?" Tazuna asked. Inari opened the door and turned his head.

"To look out at the ocean, I wanna be alone." Inari said before leaving.

"Sorry about that." Tazuna said. Sakura let go of Naruto and he went after the boy. He came back down a few minutes later and looked calmer and sadder.


The five were outside by some trees.

"Aright training starts now." Kakashi said. He had crutches to help him stay up.

"Right!" Naruto said.

"First." Kakashi help up one finger. "We'll begin with a review of chakra the ninja's basic source of power. Understanding chakra is essential."

"We know that." Sasuke said.

"He's right, a long time ago we learned about…uh catchra" Naruto said.

"Chakra." Kakashi said.

"Uhhh."

"Go ahead Sakura." Kakashi said motioning to the pink headed girl. Kaminari frowned at him. He rolled his eye and lowered his voice to her. "I know you understand this already."

"Alright Naruto, I'll explain it simply so you can understand it." Sakura said. She explain Chakra, the physical type and mind/sprit type and hand signs.

"Right on all points." Kakashi said. "Iruka-sensei really did have some excellent students."

"Ugh, what's the big deal with all these complicated explanations?" Naruto asked. "The whole point is to learn the jutsu isn't it?"

"Naruto's right for once." Sasuke said. "We're already using Chakra energy in our jutsu."

"No, you have not mastered this power you've barely scratched the surface of it." Kakashi said.

"What do you mean!?" Naruto asked.

"Calm down and listen. It's just like Sakura said: you have to draw on physical and spiritual energies and then combined them within yourself. But how do you do that? Each jutsu requires different types of chakra in different proportions. You must select and combine them in exactly the right way. Up to now you've just guessed at the proportions hoping they'd come out right. Even if you produce a lot of chakra unless you can balance and control it it's all worthless. The jutsu won't work at all or it'll just be a joke. You waste so much energy that way then you're out of chakra and you can't fight at all. You're just a target."

"Uh, so how do we change that?" Naruto asked scratching the back of his head with a chuckle.

"Train so hard that controlling your chakra becomes second nature. To achieve this goal you must be ready to put your life on the line." Kakashi said.

"What do we have to do?" Sakura asked. Kakashi chuckled slightly and held one finger up.

"Climb a tree."

"Climb a tree?" The three asked in unison while Kaminari smirked.

"That's right, but there's just one rule." Kakashi lifted his hands slightly "No hands."

"What, you're kidding." Sakura said.

"Am I?" Kakashi asked. "Let's see." Kakashi did a small hand sign before walking over to a tree. He put his foot on the tree then simply walked up it with his crutches.

"He's climbing." Naruto said.

"Straight up." Sakura said. "And he's only using his feet."

"Well you get the idea." Kakashi said, stopping on a branch upside-down. "Focus the chakra towards the soles of your feet and use it to connect to the tree. This is one way to apply the power of chakra."

"Wait a minute, that's a nice trick but how does it help us fight Zabuza?" Sakura asked.

"It's the only way to fight him, Sakura." Kakashi said. "That's the entire goal of this training. First you'll learn to draw a precise amount of chakra to a precise point in body. This is difficult even for advanced ninja. This type of climbing requires a subtle mix of physical and spiritual energy. And the bottoms of the feet are the most difficult points to focus chakra. Are you getting the picture? If you can master this, you'll be able to master any jutsu. Well, theoretically. The second point is to learn to maintain your chakra levels. When a ninja is focused in battle it's even harder to control and maintain his chakra levels a deadly mistake. To avoid this maintaining chakra must become second nature. Effortless. Well I can talk about this all day but that won't advance your skills will it. You need to apply the power of chakra, though training." Kakashi took out three kunai and threw them down to land in front of Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke then a fourth in front of Kaminari. "Use the kunai knife to mark the tree at the highest point you can climb without using your hands, then try to get past that mark the next time and the next. At first you'll need to run at the tree so your momentum can take you as high as possible until you get used to it. Ready?" The four picked up their kunai's.

"I'm more than ready; this is gunna be no sweat all the way. Believe it!" Naruto said. "Remember what you said sensei, I'm the one who's grown the most."

"You're definitely the one who talks the most. Now get focused and do it!" The four made hand sighed and focused.

"I got it. Charge!" They all ran at the tree. Naruto took two steps and fell. Sasuke managed to get a good few meters up and was able to slash the tree before back flipping off. Below the slash mark was a mark where his foot had pressed in too hard.

"That's about what I expected from Sasuke." Kakashi said. "And Naruto."

"Hey this is fun!" Sakura called. She and Kaminari giggled.

"Sakura, Kami-Chan..." Naruto said as the three looked up to see Sakura and Kaminari sitting on a branch together way up in the tree.

"Well, looks like the female members of the squad have the most advanced chakra control. Well done Sakura." Kaminari frowned at him and crossed her arms. "Nari-Chan you've already learned this." Kakashi said.

"Yeah way to go Sakura, I always knew you were awesome, believe it!" Naruto said. Kaminari looked down at him with a frown.

"Whatever." Sasuke said. Sakura looked upset.

"At least you impressed one of them." Kaminari muttered before jumping down. She landed on the ground a few feet from Sasuke who looked at her with a glare. She glared back twice as hard before looking away.

"Well not only does Sakura understand chakra she can control and maintain it as well. We spoke about someone becoming Hokage one day, didn't we? Seems Sakura's got the best chance of that. Wouldn't you say? As for the great Uchiha clan maybe they're not so great after all." Kakashi said.

"That's enough, you talk too much sensei!" Sakura called. Kaminari glanced up the tree before walking over to another and leaning against it.

"Alright, first I'll match Sasuke." Naruto said. "Then I'm going all the way to the top, believe it!"


Soon the three genin were panting or breathing heavily. Sasuke was crouched, catching his breath, while Sakura lay in front of one of the trees as Naruto fell from one and hit his head yet again. He clutched his head in pain and looked up to see his markings weren't that high. Sasuke had only gotten about a meter or two above where he first marked. Naruto stood up with a small yell before going over to Sakura. He crouched in front of her and spoke softly.

"Hey, you're good at this, how 'bout some advice?" He asked. "But please don't tell Sasuke I asked. Please please." Kaminari glared over at Sakura and noticed Sasuke looking at her. She glared coldly at him before walking up the tree she was leaning against and sitting in a very high branch. She took out a kunai and started carving things into the tree. Kakashi looked up at her and frowned slightly. Sasuke looked up the tree Kaminari was in and looked over at Naruto and Sakura who were talking quietly.

"Hey." Sasuke called quietly up the tree. He looked over at the others to see they hadn't heard him and looked back up. "Hey." He said a bit louder. Kaminari looked down and raised one eyebrow. He motioned for her to come do. She sighed and jumped down.

"What?" She asked. He looked over at Naruto and Sakura then back at Kaminari.

"Give me some tips." He said. Kaminari blinked.

"Why don't you go ask Sakura?" Kaminari said looking away.

"Cause you're…" Sasuke said. Kaminari looked back. "You're not that annoying." He said under his breath. Kaminari gave him a look and he rolled his eyes. "Just…"

"Help?" Kaminari asked with a smirk. He gave her a slight glare.

"Yes." He growled. Kaminari smirked more. "Just don't tell Naruto."

"Wasn't planning on it." Kaminari said glancing over to Naruto.


So this was about half the length of the last chapter. 7 and 8 are still in The Land of Waves Arc.

I might actually post another chapter later if I don't go to bed soon.