Sleepless D: Sorry for leaving the last chapter a cliff hanger, I couldn't resist myself, here is the next chapter. Peace out.
"What!" Naruto yells, totally furious on what he just heard. "What do you mean she didn't pass?"
'Naruto-Kun.' She thought to herself, feeling different emotions, upset, angry and disappointment by failing, happy, excited and curious by Naruto's behaviour of her failing. "I-It's aright N-Naruto-Kun." She says, looking down.
"No! It's not alright! We beat you Kakashi! So we should all pass!" Naruto yells in anger, wanting to hurt Kakashi like he just did to Sasuke.
"What can I say Naruto, you've got a bell and she doesn't, it's like a real mission with Hinata having to suffer while you complete the mission." Kakashi informs him.
When Naruto heard this, he quickly places the bell into Hinata's hands, shocking most of the people there. "N-Naruto-Kun...w-what...w-why a-are you d-doing t-this." She asks, while trying to give the bell back but Naruto just wouldn't accept it.
"I don't know, I said to you while you were knocked out that I'll get the bells for both of us, but I only got one and I don't want to disappoint you." Naruto says, having a sad look on his face, yet a small smile as well. Hinata soon blushes by what Naruto just said, not sure what to say.
Sasuke grumbles and threw his bell at Naruto, surprising everyone again. "Take it...I only got it because...of you anyway, I will only pass...by my own abilities and by...no one's help, when I do...I'll be closer to killing my brother." He mumbles the last part to himself, angry about Naruto and his nuts hurting badly.
"Congratulations." Kakashi says suddenly, making everyone look strangely at him. "You all pass." He smiles, and again, making everyone look strangely at him.
"What?" Naruto asks in confusion.
"You pass, because all of you cared for your teammates, although Sasuke was a bit more questionable, but still." Kakashi smiles.
"I-I still d-don't understand." Hinata says in confusion.
"Those that break the rules and codes of the ninja world are called trash, but you know what? Those who don't care for their comrades and leave them behind, they are worse than trash." Kakashi tells them. "And since you wanted the others to pass, you all pass."
They all look dumbstruck, but they slowly gain happy smiles, even Sasuke has a small smile. "We did it!" Naruto yells excitedly, doing a small dance.
Kakashi gave them the thumbs up. "That's the end of the training and you all pass, starting tomorrow, Team 7 will begin its duties."
Xxxxxxxxxx
A few days have gone by and Team 7 was on a mission. "Target sighted." Kakashi hears on the radio.
"Does everyone have sights on the target?" Kakashi asks, sitting in a tree.
"Y-Yes, K-Kakashi sensei." Hinata's voice came from the radio.
"Hell yeah." Another voice replies afterwards.
"Clear to engage." Kakashi informs them.
The three charges towards the target, Naruto was the first to grab the cat, which surprised it and let out a shocked meow. "Gotcha!" Naruto yells, but as he got up, the cat wasn't happy and Naruto held it too low, the cat quickly swung all of its claws at is groin and imbedded them so it wouldn't let go.
Naruto screams in shock and pain, letting go of the cat, but it wasn't letting go of him and Naruto just jumping left to right, backwards and forwards in hopes that the cat would tear off by the rapid movement. The cat still held on which made Naruto grab the cat and yank hard enough that the cat did let go, but it did leave small bloody holes on his trousers and held it at a distance. "A-Are you a-alright N-Naruto-Kun?" Hinata asks him in concern and blushes slightly.
"Not really...just in a little pain." Naruto says, his voice cracking a little and pain in his body and voice. "Can you open the cage now Sasuke?" He asks the emo looking preteen, in which he opens the cage and Naruto stuffs the cat in it, slightly rougher since he wants revenge.
Hinata quick took out a pot of Hyuga Clan Secret Ointment and handed it to him. "H-Here N-Naruto-Kun, i-it helps w-wounds h-heal quickly." She informs him wish a blush.
Naruto smiles at her and accepts the pot. "Thanks Hinata." He tells her and then drops his trousers, soon applying the ointment. (He was still wearing pants/underwear luckily enough today, because he still doesn't like them.) Hinata just stood there; acting like nothing was happening, then again, she wasn't even moving a muscle, while Sasuke didn't care, since Naruto's done worse than that.
Kakashi walked towards then, and spots Naruto with his trousers down and applying some ointment. "What's going on?" Kakashi asks.
"Cat scratched me down there, so Hinata gave me some ointment to help." Naruto explains, rubbing the ointment in different areas.
Kakashi looks at Hinata, not too sure of her actions. "Hinata?" He calls, gaining nothing. "Hinata?" He calls again, patting her on her back and that did make her do something, not a positive thing but still, she had a trickle of blood come from her nose, went red and collapses. "Well that's great." Kakashi sighs. "After you're done Naruto, will you carry her?" Kakashi asks the slightly simple Naruto.
"Huh...sure." Naruto says, closing the ointment pot and pulls up his trousers.
Xxxxx
A little while later, at the Hokage's tower, Team 7 stood in the mission hall with the Hokage, Iruka, several council/ninja members to assign tasks and the Fire country Lord's wife squeezing the life out of the cat. "Teaches that cat right." Naruto mumbles, rubbing his groin and gains confused and disturbed looks from the council/ninja at the table by what Naruto is going.
"Naruto." Kakashi warns and stops him from doing that.
"Poor cat." Hinata whispers, not liking to see anything in pain.
"Now Team 7, your next duty is...Hmm...Babysitting an elder's grandson, shopping in a neighbouring village, and help with the-" The Hokage began to read.
"Aw come on! Can't we get any better missions already? I'm bored out of my mind doing these missions already!" Naruto yells in annoyance.
'...I agree.' Sasuke thought but didn't show it.
Hinata went nervous and hid behind Naruto, not wanting to disagree with anyone.
Kakashi sighs. 'I knew this would happen sooner or later.' He thought to himself and made notes to hit Naruto.
"Naruto, you're just a rookie, everyone starts off with simple duties and works their way up!" Iruka yells at Naruto in anger.
"I don't need to work my way up! Cause I'm already good enough to do higher jobs!" Naruto yells back, not wanting to do simple missions anymore.
Kakashi bonks the back of Naruto's head. "Quiet you." He tells him, knowing that if this continued, he would get an earful.
"Naruto, I've already explained what these duties are about." The Hokage said. (I believe you all know about the ranks and the missions) "So I'll tell you again...blah blah blah." He continues for several minutes. "And that's why D rank missions are perfect for you." He finishes.
"-And that's why the elderly couple still complain when I get up-" Naruto tells his team while nearly making Hinata faint, and not listening to the Hokage.
"Hey! Listen!" The Hokage yells in annoyance.
"Oh, my apology Lord Hokage." Kakashi says, rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment.
"Come on Hokage, you know I get bored when you talk to us like that, but I'm more then capable! I managed to beat up Mizuki and get Kakashi's bells! So give us a better mission!" Naruto yells.
Kakashi sighs again. 'Something tells me that I'll get yelled at for this.' He thought to himself.
Iruka and the Hokage smirk. "Ok then." The Hokage replies, making Team 7 confused. "If you want it so badly I'll give it to you, (Ha ha) I've got a C rank mission that can be done right now." He smiles.
"What is it?" Naruto asked sounding very excited.
"You'll be protecting a curtain individual, you can come in now!" The Hokage calls through the door.
The door slides open and an old man came through, drinking a bottle of sake. "What is this? The league of annoying super brats? All I see are a kid with a tough guy act, a girl who looks like she'll fall to a bad comment and a short guy with the stupid looking face." The old man says before taking another swig from his bottle.
Both Sasuke and Naruto were now annoyed, glaring at him while Hinata tries to hide in shame, Naruto saw that Hinata was hurt by what he said and got angry. "Alright, you're dead!" Naruto yells, having Kakashi hold him by the collar of his jacket.
"You don't kill the people we need to protect." Kakashi tells him.
"I'm the super expert builder, Tazuna. I expect you to provide me super protection until I get back to my country and complete my bridge." Tazuna tells them.
Xxxxx
An hour later, Team 7 and Tazuna are outside the gates. "Wahoo!" Naruto yells excitedly.
"Why are you so happy?" Sasuke asks, not really caring, but it probably stops him from doing that again.
"I haven't left the village for over three years since I had left the village." Naruto smiles and sniffs the air.
"So you are from outside the village." Sasuke asks in confusion.
"...Yeah, but I was born here apparently." Naruto says, not too sure if that's true himself.
"Hn." Sasuke replies.
"Am I really going to be safe with this shrimp?" Tazuna asks.
"Don't worry, he may be small, but he's more than capable." Kakashi smiles, slightly proud of his Genin and knew they'd do well enough.
"Yeah, since I'm going to be the next Hokage." Naruto smiles.
"The Hokage? He's the number 1 ninja right?" Tazuna asks.
"That's right! And I'm going to be the next one, for I am Naruto...Uzumaki!" Naruto says, having forgotten his last name for a minute since he never uses it often.
"So? I bet you couldn't become Hokage in a million years." Tazuna says, getting Naruto angry.
"I'll show you!" Naruto yells. "And when I do, I'm going to be better than all of them!"
"By then, I'll probably be the king of the mermen, with an army of shrimps better then you." The old man smirks.
"You're dead!" Naruto yells, but Kakashi held him back again.
Xxxxx
About an hour into the silent journey, Hinata breaks the silence. "T-Tazuna-San?"
"What?" He replies, not wanting to talk about anything.
"Um...You're f-from the W-Wave country r-right?" She asks.
"What about it?" He asks, getting slightly suspicious.
"Um...K-Kakashi sensei? Do t-they have n-ninja i-in that c-country too?" Hinata asks her leader, gaining his attention.
"No, not in the wave country, but almost every other country do, they may have different culture and costumes, but most do have hidden villages, and so do ninja's-" (and Kakashi informs them about the different places and different Kage's) "However, the Wave country doesn't really require any Shinobi, because the sea is their effective defence."
"W-Wow...I never k-knew the H-Hokage is t-that p-powerful?" Hinata says in slight amazement.
"Is that true?" Naruto asks, never really thinking of other countries, but thinking that they were like the same as his.
"Yes he is." Kakashi tells Naruto and then looks at Hinata. "Are you nervous about meeting foreign ninja?"
Hinata blushes, and nods. "Y-Yes K-Kakashi sensei."
"Well don't worry, this is a C rank mission, so there aren't going to be any foreign ninja," Kakashi assures her.
Several minutes later, the Team pass a rather large puddle, but Naruto wasn't paying attention and steps into the puddle. "Wow!" He yells in surprise.
"What?" Kakashi asks, slightly concerned by Naruto's sudden yell.
"I didn't notice the puddle and it's deeper than it looks..." Naruto tells him, slightly curious by the fact there is a puddle when it hasn't rained in weeks, he kept looking at the puddle as they walk off and looks back to where he was going.
A few seconds later, a head slowly came from the puddle, looking rather angry that someone stood on his head; he and his brother emerge from the puddle. They quickly sent the chain attached to them, spinning around Kakashi, thinking that they've taken him by surprise, while everyone else looks back in shock. "One down." They say in union and Kakashi was sliced into pieces.
Tazuna looks in horror; Hinata tries not to faint, Sasuke looks like he always does, while Naruto becomes angry, but not by seeing Kakashi getting sliced up, but from not realising the puddle sooner. "K-Kakashi sensei!" Hinata screams in horror.
"Two down." The Demon brothers say, appearing behind Naruto with the chain coming at him, the chains quickly closed, but Naruto vanishes, making them confused. They saw movement above, looking and were met by a spinning Naruto, kicking the two of them and they hit the ground hard. Naruto lands on the ground, standing on the chains and chuckles at seeing the two Mist ninja quickly get up, but Sasuke appeared and backhanded the nearest Mist ninja and made that ninja fly into his brother. Naruto lost his footing since the two ninja were sent away, meaning the chain was pulled out from under his feet.
The Mist ninja curse in pain, quickly recovering and aim their large gauntlets at the two Genin, the area holding the chains explode and the chains fly towards them. Sasuke quickly ducks under the chain, Naruto didn't notice since he was getting up, luckily for him, it just missed the skin of his head, pulling out some hair and hits a tree, tying it up. Naruto curses, quickly looking to see the two Mist ninja move now, one heads towards Naruto and Sasuke, the other heading towards Tazuna.
Hinata quickly got in between Tazuna and the Mist ninja, holding up her palms, some fear in her eyes, but she wasn't going to let the man die without a fight. Naruto vanishes, soon causing the Mist ninja attacking Hinata flying, crashing into a tree, destroying it completely. Naruto stood were the Mist ninja was, rubbing his head and quickly turns to see if Sasuke needed any help, but saw that he was handling himself and knocks the other guy out.
Clapping came from the woods, they look and see Kakashi walking out and doing the clapping. "Well done, you all did exceptionally well." He tells them with a smile.
"K-Kakashi sansei? B-But I t-thought..." She looked at where he was and saw pieces of wood everywhere, realising that he used Substitution Jutsu.
"I was checking whether or not you could handle real danger and you did better than I expected, even you Hinata." He smiles at her and makes her blush. "Tazuna, we need to talk." Kakashi then says with a serious tone.
A few minutes later and the Demon brothers were tied up. "These guys are from the Village Hidden in the Mist, they are known to keep on fighting no matter what." Kakashi tells them and looks at the Mist ninja.
"How did you know our movements?" The one that Sasuke took out asks, the other being too knocked out from Naruto's attack.
"A puddle on a sunny day when it hasn't rained in weeks, it shouldn't exist, plus it was a little too deep when Naruto stepped in it." Kakashi informs them.
"Then why did you make the brats fight when you knew that?" Tazuna asks, a little nervous that he had an attack this soon.
"I could have killed them instantly, but...there was something I needed to find out, who their target was." Kakashi tells him, looking at Tazuna.
"What do you mean?" Tazuna asks, becoming even more nervous.
"I needed to know if they were after one of us, or you, we never heard that you had Shinobi after you, we were simple sent to protect you against thieves or gangs. However, this has now become at least a B rank mission, if it was known that ninjas were after you, it would have been an expensive B rank. I'm sure you have your reasons, but we are now outside of our duties and that has caused problems." Kakashi said, gaining a serious look from Tazuna.
"B-But w-we're not r-ready for a B r-rank mission y-yet." Hinata stutters with slight fear.
"Well...I'll leave it to a vote, who believes that we should return?" Kakashi asks the group.
Hinata looks to Sasuke and Naruto, but they just stood there. "N-Naruto-Kun? D-Don't you t-think we should r-return?" She asks him, still nervous.
"No way, this mission just got interesting." He smiles in excitement.
"B-But I d-don't w-want you t-to get hurt." Hinata replies.
Naruto sighs and walks towards her, placing his hand on her shoulder and smiles. "Don't worry so much, I can take care of myself, including you." He smiles at her.
Hinata blushes a deeper shade of red and nodded. "No objections?" Kakashi asks, gaining no reply.
"Kakashi." Tazuna says, gaining his attention. "I'll tell you everything."
Xxxxxxxxxx
It's been a day and at a fortress several miles away, hidden in the Wave country, several dozen guards stood outside while their employer is inside. In one of the large rooms, a very short man with a few guards was yelling at a large man with a giant blade on his back.
"I paid you a lot of money to kill that bastard!" The short man yells, a little spit coming from his mouth. "You're supposed to be hot shot assassins!"
"Shut up mate, we are the best." A tall Shinobi that was bowed, he wore large, grey camouflaged clothes, a katana handle coming from his back and an ANBU mask on, having blue flames designed on it and going downwards.
"Both of you...quiet down." The large man says and swings his giant sword and nearly hitting the short man. "I'll go myself this time...I'll be sure to kill them." The man says.
"G-Good...cause I want t-that bastard to die..." The man says, looking at the Mist leader's subordinates. "Y-You better kill them Zabuza, otherwise y-you won't ever work again!" He yells.
"Smart, threaten a guy that can sever your head in one move." The masked ninja says.
"I will kill them; no one will ever be able to defeat me, since I am the Demon of the Hidden Mist." Zabuza says with a dark voice.
"Sure, whatever you say." The short man says with a dark look before leaving.
Once the man and his guards left, he left the masked Mist ninja there in silent for several seconds. "Zabuza...we shouldn't be following that bastard." The Mist ninja says.
"We need the money...just follow orders." Zabuza tells him and stands, looking at his followers. "All follow the plan, you're with me boy." Zabuza tells the masked ninja. "And get Haku, he'll be involved as well."
"Yes Zabuza, anything for our cause." The masked Mist ninja says and the Mist ninja vanish from the room.
Sleepless D: There you have it people, on to the land of waves, I'm updating and the future does have similar things to the manga/anime, but I plan to change it, so sorry if you don't get to read it soon enough. Peace out
