Chapter seven is here. :) :) :) :)

bankai777: Yeppers. Danzo will try to get a hold of him, that's all I'll say...

AUselessMicrofluff: That was what I was aiming for. :)

NinjaFang1331: Thank you..

Mashiro (document deletes full name): I really like female Haku so I want to keep it this way. Minato didn't show up because Naruto wasn't controlled, he broke the seal willingly. The letter is the reason why, you'll see what was written in the letter later. However, Minato and Kushina will show up soon... That's all I'll say as well.

moon fire 96: You'll find out today. *Giggles*

Elder Sibling: Jealous people like yourself are not welcome here. Piss off. And by the way, Haku, Sasuke, and Naruto are pretty even, but Haku is stronger with her ice mirrors.

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Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Chapter 7

Secret Revealed

"Thinking"

"Jutsu"

"Talking"

"N-Naruto?" Asked a confused Kakashi with widened eyes. "What?" He was at a loss for words, his student was glowing golden and managed to stopped his hand with ease, his grip was so strong that he couldn't even move his hand.

"Sensei, don't do anything to Haku, she's not your target and Zabuza can't even move his hands anymore. This battle is over." Naruto returned to his original form as he faced the northern side of the bridge.

Kakashi looked at Naruto still surprised and said, "you have a lot of explaining to do when we get to the leaf village."

A certain midget gathered with his men on the bridge with weapons in hand.

"Gato…" Zabuza growled, he did not want to deal with this fat, greedy midget. "What do you want!"

"Such a temper Zabuza…" Gato grinned that showed how much he was savoring this moment, "I forgot to mention there's been a change in plans. You see, missing ninja like yourself are simply too expensive to pay for. I never planned on actually paying you…it's always been my plan to simply get rid of you after you did the job and were too weak to do anything. It's so easy to get rid of you rogue ninja, you abandoned your village and now no one will come after me after I kill you. Hell! I usually get a bonus with your bounty when I hand you over!"

Zabuza growled at the man, "I see, so that was your plan all along."

"Of course," Gato smirked, "and now you're not going to be able to do a thing to my boys with your broken ass arms. I doubt you could take down even one of my boys here, though I would be appreciative if you did at least try to kill a few of them. After all, while they may not be as expensive as you, they still cost me some money."

"Looks like my quarrel with you is over Kakashi," Zabuza grunted and looked at Haku.

"It does seem that way," Kakashi agreed, readying a kunai. He did not know how many he could take out with how exhausted he was, but he was not about to go down without a fight.

"I'll go too, Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!" Naruto made two clones which were ready to fight.

Haku got into a stance as she thanked Naruto. "Thank you Naruto-kun, let's beat them together."

Naruto smiled at her as they watched their respective senseis charge the crowd. They followed their lead and began their assault.

Naruto kicked one of the men sending him flying into another. He ducked under a punch and elbowed his attacker in the face making him stumble backwards and fall, blood trickling down his nose. Another attempted a full nelson and was successful. He grabbed Naruto and waited for his comrade to hit him in the stomach. When he did, Naruto hit the guy who grabbed him and stepped to the side, causing his comrade to hit the guy who grabbed him in the stomach. He uppercutted another sending him flying into the other men. Naruto tied the men he took down with ninja wires and dusted off his hands. His clones also got their jobs done as well and dispelled.

Haku threw senbon at three men causing their eyes to roll to the back of their heads and collapse. She charged another group with kicks, punches, and finally, used her Hissatsu Hyoso to impail the remainder of the gang she was taking on.

Kakashi had his famed Raikiri ready and was taking down several men with it. However, it did not go without a price as when the jonin sensei had finished off his part of the Gato gang members, he collapsed to one knee with his hand over his sharingan eye. He covered his eye with his headband as he rose up from the ground.

Zabuza only had his legs to attack the gang members but he was doing quite a good job at it. He showed no mercy as he kicked his enemies in the neck killing them instantly. He finished off the final gang member as his lifeless body fell to the ground with a thud. Zabuza looked at Gato as he panted in exhaustion.

"Uh-uh please, I'll give you anything you want, just don't-don't hurt me please," Gato begged Zabuza for mercy but he never got any. The demon nin kicked him in the stomach causing him to double over and grab his stomach in pain. He then proceeded to kick the fat midget in the mouth, causing blood to spew out of it and several teeth to be knocked out. Gato howled in pain as tears formed in his eyes from the immense pain he was feeling. Gato received one last kick to the head causing it to spin in an impossible angle and his body fell into the ocean with a splash and blood gathered at the surface, causing the water to be dark red.

Zabuza grinned but collapsed as he said, "that bastard is dead." Naruto's eyes widened as he closed them and looked to his side.

Haku rushed over to Zabuza and looked at his wounds. He had several swords sticking from his back and was soaked with blood. It didn't take a smart person to figure out that the demon of the hidden waves was going to die.

"H-Haku..." Snow started falling from the sky as Zabuza faced Haku. "You were always by my side, wherever I went. The least I can do is be by your side at the very end of my life."

Team seven gathered behind Zabuza and Haku. Naruto wore a sad look on his face as he sat by Haku. Sakura who was helping Sasuke walk also had a sad look on her face, not up to Naruto's level but it was still sad. Sasuke showed a bit of sadness but he was mostly tired while Kakashi looked up at the sky as the mist began to fade and the snow started to gather. Zabuza looked at Naruto and said, "hey blond brat, you've got guts kid and I can see you becoming something special, I have something for you. Reach into my shuriken pouch, there's a red scroll, grab it. That is my gift to you." Naruto did what he was told and took the red scroll with a smile on his face. He thanked Zabuza as Zabuza looked at Haku again and continued.

"I know it that it can not be, but I wish that I could have gone to the same place you'll eventually go to." Zabuza's raised his hand to Haku's cheek and with his index finger, tenderly wiped a tear from Haku's right eye. "The best years of my miserable life were with you. You would sacrifice everything for me yet I would have thrown you away if it meant ensuring my survival, I'm sorry for that. I'm sorry for everything, but also, thank you. Thank you for always being by my side. Thank you, Haku." Zabuza's hand dropped from Haku's cheek and onto the ground as his eyes closed.

Team seven along with Haku slept at Tazuna and Tsunami's house for the last time. They were getting ready to leave the wave village and head back to Konoha.

Naruto was asked by Sasuke about the red scroll many times but he never said anything. After asking a couple more times, Sasuke simply stopped asking Naruto any questions.

Luckily for Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura didn't see him in his chakra mode, only Kakashi, Haku and Zabuza did.

Naruto looked up at the roof in the bed Tsunami had ready for him. He sighed as he laid on his stomach with his face buried deep into the pillow. In a second, he found himself in front of the sleeping Kurama.

Naruto didn't want to talk with anyone right now, especially Kurama, but he had some questions for him. "Oy Kurama, wake up."

The Kyuubi opened his right eye and closed it as he spoke up, "what do you want brat?"

Naruto looked at the ground and spoke, "why can't I use chakra mode anymore? I tried this morning but I just couldn't access it."

The nine tailed fox sighed a long lasting sigh. "It seems that you've overused the chakra mode. It's meant to be used three times a day at most yet you've used it at least ten times during your training session."

Naruto grimaced and grit his teeth. He couldn't use his chakra mode, the same mode that saved his friend's life. He felt so strong with it and now that he's lost it, he feels helpless and weak. "How long do I have to wait before I can access it again?"

"Well, I already told you that if you overuse it, you'll die, but it seems that you will no longer die with overuse, simply lose the form itself. As for how long you'll lose it, I don't know."

Naruto looked at Kurama with an irritated expression. "Well you're no help at all."

Naruto went back to the real world and sat up from his bed. He got into his ninja outfit and looked out the window. He saw his team excluding his sensei waiting for him outside along with Tazuna and his family.

Naruto headed down the stairs and found his sensei exiting the door. He followed him and closed the door.

Naruto headed to Haku who sat under the shade of a tree. "Hey, Haku-chan. I take it you're not coming with us huh?"

Haku looked up at Naruto with a grin. "Thank you for the offer, but I'm going to travel across the world. I thank you for the last time Naruto-kun."

Haku gave Naruto a small kiss on the cheek which caused him to blush deeply and she walked away. "Goodbye Naruto-kun."

Naruto smiled as he said, "goodbye, Haku-chan."

Naruto then joined his team forming a line with Tazuna's family and the whole wave country directly in front of them.

Tazuna began talking first. "Thanks to you four we have finally completed the bridge, but do you really have to go so soon?" Tazuna said with a large smile as he placed a hand on a nearly tearing up Inari's head.

"Unfortunately," Kakashi replied with his book out as usual, "Lord third will want a report on what happened here as soon as possible."

Naruto moved over to Inari, kneeling down he ruffled the kid's hair and gave him a large grin, "Don't worry we'll be back to visit sometime."

Inari sniffled as his eyes threatened to spill tears, "really? Promise?"

Grinning a little wider gave Inari a thumbs up, "I promise!"

Inari started tearing up some more and nearly began crying.

"It's ok to cry if you're happy you know," Naruto commented as he noticed the kid looked ready to burst out into tears.

Inari tackled Naruto and hugged him as he started crying. Naruto laughed and after a good twenty seconds, Inari got off of him.

Standing back up again Naruto gave them one final grin. "Well, see you later guys, be sure to look after this place."

"Then I guess this is goodbye," Kakashi said as he and the other ninja turned around.

"See ya later Inari," Naruto said as he waved over his shoulder.

"That boy," Tazuna said as he looked at the retreating figure of Naruto. "That boy changed Inari's heart, and Inari changed our people's hearts. Allowing us to build a bridge called "hope" for our dying country."

"Oh yeah, speaking of the bridge…" One of the people there said. "What should we call it?"

"How about the Great Naruto bridge, it does have a nice ring to it, doesn't it?"

"That does sound like a fitting name father," Tsunami said as she giggled.

"Yep, I have a feeling that name is gonna bring this bridge good luck!" Tazuna stated as people began to cheer for the new bridge and the genin who made it all possible, "Who knows, it may even bring other people good luck."

Team seven was in the hokage mansion reporting back to the third hokage Sarutobi.

"What?! You're saying that this mission wasn't in fact c rank, but was b-rank? I can't believe you encountered Zabuza of the hidden wave. Strong fellow isn't he?"

Kakashi had the same lazy expression as usual. He nodded as he sighed.

The third hokage spoke up, "Kakashi, I need you to stay here, the rest of you are dismissed." Sasuke and Sakura exited the room and Naruto followed but when he held the door so he could exit, his sensei spoke up, "wait Naruto, we need to talk."

Sarutobi raised an eyebrow as Naruto pursed his lips and turned around. He closed the door ever so slowely sighing as he walked until he was next to his sensei.

"So, what is it that you want to talk about?" Asked the professor as he tilited his head by about two degrees.

Kakashi was gonna speak but Naruto beat him to it. "I talked with Kurama and I received something called chakra mode."

The third hokage was now even more confused but at the same time curious. "Who is this Kurama person? And what is chakra mode?"

Naruto spoke up again, "Kurama is the Kyuubi's name. I talked to him and convinced him to give me his chakra. I gained this thing called Kyuubi Chakura Modo which makes me much, much, MUCH stronger than what I normally am. I trained and I began to understand Kurama's awesome power. In this mode, I have the strength to destroy solid cement, huge boulders, huge walls, huge trees, and any type of metal with relative ease. I'm also really, really fast. Fast enough to run around the whole village in less than a minute and I won't even sweat. I have really good durability as well. I can withstand extreme heat and possibly even extreme cold. I can take anything that I can dish out, and by that I mean I can take a hit that demolishes walls and just shrug it off."

Kakashi nodded confirming everything that Naruto had just said.

Sarutobi soaked in everything he heard and was in deep thought. "He-He managed to control a mighty tailed beast. A thirteen year old kid managed to control the Kyuubi. How? That's completely unheard of!"

"Naruto, Kakashi, this is going to be a long day."

Naruto entered his apartment home and slammed his face against his pillow. The third hokage had kept him and Kakashi at his office till it was night time. He basically told him that no one should ever know about his chakra mode until he was strong enough to defend himself against anyone who he faces over and over again. He then told him about a certain shinobi named Danzo who always wanted to control him and now that he's got a hold of the nine tailed chakra mode, he would want to capture him against all odds.

Naruto didn't bother to take off his clothes or even his shinobi sandals, he just went to sleep.

Naruto woke up the next morning and did his usual morning routine. He left the house and made about a hundred shadow clones for training. He divided them into four groups of twenty five. The first group would work on ninjutsu. The second group would work on taijutsu, while the third group would work on calligraphy. Naruto made the fourth group work on fuinjutsu.

He grinned as he went over to his favorite ramen shop, Ichiraku Ramen!

"Hey Teuchi-san, how about four bowls of ramen for your number one customer!"

Teuchi grinned and said, "coming right up."

Naruto whistled and looked around the ramen shop as he waited. When his order arrived, he grinned and took two chopsticks out, separating them both and he began to slurp down his ramen.

"So Naruto, where have you been this past week or so? You better not be eating ramen from another shop..."

"What no, no way! I've just had a mission to do, a long mission actually." Naruto finished his third bowl of ramen as a pair of arms wrapped around him and he felt someone's chin on his head.

"It's probably Anko..." Naruto turned around and saw the snake's former apprentice. "Hey Anko-nee-chan!"

Anko sat down next to Naruto with a grin. "So how's my favorite gaki been?"

Naruto slurped up his final bowl before answering, "well, I was just on this mission to the land of waves when..."

After Naruto told Anko about his mission, he went to bed. He, along with his team kept going on missions for about two weeks. All of them were boring, they were all d ranks except for three which were c rank. Team seven went on missions to clean ponds, rivers, and backyards. They would remove shrubs from gardens and water plants. They would walk dogs around the village and return them to their owners.

They were all tired of it to say the very least.

"Ok, I think that's enough for today," Kakashi said, getting the attention of his three genin. "I have to go submit this mission report. See ya!" The grey haired jonin disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Naruto watched as Kakashi disappeared within a shunshin. Turning around he saw that Sasuke had already left, and Sakura was walking away with a depressed look on her face.

"Time for some more training." Naruto was just about to start walking when he heard a noise.

Turning around he saw a square box behind him with a rock texture painted on it. It also had two eye holes in the front.

Already knowing who was under that box Naruto just sighed and began to walk away, hearing the box follow him he turned around completely and faced the box.

"You know, if you keep using these lame disguises you'll never be able to get me by surprise."

"Ha! I'm not surprised you saw through our disguise boss," said Konohamaru.

The box exploded and smoke filled the area. Naruto had to move away so he wouldn't get caught in the smoke.

"I think we used too much gunpowder," said someone in between caughs.

"So what do you guys want?"

The three kids looked up at him as their eyes widened as if they forgot to do something important, but then they began to... introduce themselves.

"Hey I'm Moegi, and I'm the sassiest kunoichi in school!" The girl with the orange pigtails said as she made an odd pose, standing on one leg and raising a single hand in the air.

"And I like algebra, I'm Udon!" Said the boy with the bowl cut, glasses and runny nose. He too took a pose beside Moegi, crouching down low and crossing his arms.

"And I'm the strongest ninja in the village, Konohamaru!" Konohamaru said as he made a pose in front of them.

"And together we're the Konohamaru Ninja Corps!" the three said altogether.

"O-kay..."

Naruto crossed his arms as he looked at the trio, "So what do you want?"

"We came here to play ninja!" said Konohamaru.

Seeing that he didn't to play with them, they started pleading him.

"C'mon, please play ninja with us!" The three said in unison.

"Ugh, a ninja playing ninja," the group turned to see an utterly depressed looking Sakura walking towards them. "That's so stupid."

"Hey boss who is this?" asked Konohamaru as he looked at the girl. "Oh I know! Hey boss, is she your…" He held up his pinky and wiggled it.

Several tic marks appeared on Sakura's head.

Naruto shook his head, "No Konohamaru, she isn't."

"Well that's good boss, because you can seriously do better than this girl!" Konohamaru looked up at her forehead, "I mean just look at her! That forehead is huge!"

Naruto looked at Sakura nervously as he saw her now murderous expression, "Hey Konohamaru, I suggest you start running."

"Why?" asked Konohamaru.

Naruto pointed over to Sakura who was currently stomping over to them and cracking her knuckles, "That's why."

Konohamaru gulped as he saw the expression on Sakura's face as she cracked her knuckles.

"Boss! She's right behind us, what should we do?!"

Naruto looked behind and saw Sakura running at them faster than what Naruto thought possible for her. Naruto looked back with a smile on his face. "Just run faster!"

Konohamaru ran faster but he smashed into someone and fell down to the ground.

"Ow…" Konohamaru rubbed his forehead. After a couple of seconds he looked up to see what he had run into. It was a guy wearing a black jumpsuit with a pair of cat ears on his head, and some kind of odd make-up on his face with an odd oblong shaped thing on his back, wrapped in bandages.

Next to him stood a girl with sandy blond hair done up in four pigtails. She was wearing a black and white battle kimono with some mesh leggings on her left ankle, while the other was higher up on her thigh. She had her headband hanging loosely on her neck, and a red sash wrapped around her waist. There was also a large battle fan attached to her back.

Naruto arrived and stood a ways behind them. He began examining them with narrowed eyes.

He noticed that the headbands they were wearing was the symbol for Sunagakure, the Village Hidden in the Sand.

"That hurt you little punk," the shinobi with the cat like ears said. He picked up Konohamaru by his scarf, "I think I need to teach you a lesson about watching where you're going."

The girl walked up behind him and shook her head in annoyance, "Kankuro, drop him, you know we're going to get in trouble if Gaara shows up."

"Relax Temari. He won't show up. Besides, this kid needs to learn not to disrespect anyone who's better than him"

"Put me down you stupid make-up freak!" Konohamaru yelled, "If you don't put me down, Naruto's gonna kick your ass!"

"It's war paint you little brat! I'll teach you not to mess with me!" he was just about to hit Konohamaru when Naruto spoke up.

"Put Konohamaru down if you know what's good for you." They turned to see Naruto standing behind them with a grin on his face that said "bring it on!"

Temari blushed as she looked at the ground. "What a cutie."

Kankuro looked at him with narrowed eyes. "Oh yeah? What are you gonna do about it?"

Naruto grinned widely and suddenly, two stones hit both of Kankuro's arms and he was forced to let go of Konohamaru. In the trees were two Naruto clones grinning widely as they dispelled.

Naruto bolted forward and grabbed Konohamaru, he then bolted backwards skidding across the ground.

Kankuro grit his teeth as reached back to his mummies.

"You're going to use Karasu here? Why?" asked Temari in surprise.

"This blond brat needs to be taught a lesson," Kankuro replied as he began to remove the bandages.

Before he could get too far a rock hit him in the hand, making him drop the large mummy and yell out in shock and a bit of pain. He looked at a tree and saw Sasuke sitting down and juggling a rock in his hand

"Great, another brat."

Temari blushed again as she looked between Sasuke and Naruto. "Wow, this village is full of cuties."

"Kankuro, stop."

Everyone stiffened in surprise and turned their heads to see a boy with red hair and the kanji for love on his forehead. He was wearing a black short sleeve shirt with a fishnet undershirt underneath that, along with matching black pants and sandals. Across his waist was a white sash and a brown leather belt and another sash going across his chest that held a large gourd to his back.

"G-Gaara," Kankuro began to shake in fear. Temari did too.

"I-I did'nt even notice him... How?" Naruto and Sasuke were sharing similar thoughts.

"Kankuro, you're an embarrassment to our village, have you forgotten why we came here?"

"Well they started it so I-"

"Shut up, or I'll kill you."

"Yeah, I'm sorry."

Naruto, Sasuke, and Konohamaru were joined by Moegi, Udon, and Sakura who stared at Gaara in surprise and a bit of fear.

Naruto shook his head and grinned. "Things just got a lot more interesting here."

Chapter seven is done. I'm sorry for the long wait guys... I'll probably have another chapter up by Saturday but no promises. Thank you for reading and please follow, favorite, and leave a review if you like my story and want more... Oh, if you follow and favorite, you'll get a notification of when I update... Oh well, 'nuff said...

-Unato out!