SPECIAL NOTE: Oh, Tenzo (a.k.a. Yamato) is actually "Neko", which is weird because I thought Yugao was Neko until I researched just to be sure. Turns out it is Tenzo. Their masks all looks similar to each other that I couldn't tell what animal they represent.

I would apologize in advance about my writing. Fighting scenes are not my best forte. I hope I did it well.

I actually waited to finish the fillers and yes, I know they are annoying but I was curious a little on how Fuu interacts though it isn't very much shown about her. The Chuunin exam filler was a bummer. Anyway, because of it, there were lots of arguments between pairings wither NarutoxFuu or GaaraxFuu or NejixFuu. Hahaha! What do you think?


CHAPTER SEVEN:

"ITTE!" Naruto cried in pain as he clutched his head. "What was that for sensei, dattebayo?"

A tick mark emerged from Han's forehead. "That's for not listening and running towards danger you idiot!" he yelled furiously at his student. Why did he take this job? Han questioned himself.

"But sensei, Kurame and Monga-san could be in danger!" Naruto replied.

Han sighed. "That explosion could be just coincidence. For all I know they walked out of the border safely." Besides, I highly doubt our client is the reason why they would be attacked. Kurame doesn't seem to be the type of guy who gets in trouble with bad people. Han thought. "I wasn't aware you and Kurame were close. Shinobi don't particularly get themselves attached with their clients. You barely know the guy, Naruto! I am very sure Monga and his team is capable enough to protect him."

"But even it isn't Kurame-san and Monga-san, shouldn't we see what it was, ssu?" Fuu asked, curiously.

"A shinobi doesn't go beyond their mission parameters. Trouble usually happens when they do." Han argued. Why isn't this penetrating through their thick skulls? He was just relieved that Gaara wasn't arguing with them.

"But sensei. Shibuki-sama always tells me to always lend a helping hand to people, even if you don't know them. That's how you make a hundred friends, ssu!" Fuu smiled.

What is wrong with these two? Han thought. Gaara also stared incredulously at Fuu. Helping people wasn't in their vocabulary. They prefer to leave people to their fate or in Gaara's case, crushed with his sand.

"We could just take a look?" Gaara sighed. "If it's nothing we should concern ourselves about, we'll let it be." Shukaku was screaming in his head to go take a look and try to remove whoever was there.

Fuu and Naruto turned towards Han, pouting and giving off their puppy dog eyes.

Han sweat dropped. Unknown to him, his Bijuu, was sweat dropping too. My host's students are idiots. Kokuo sighed.

BOOM!Another explosion rocked the bridge. Han sighed.


"Where is it?" Kakuzu asked calmly. One of his hands is wrapped around the Iwa jounin's throat. Kakuzu didn't bother to know the man's name. A man whose name isn't in the Bingo book isn't worth to know.

"I…tol..d...you…" the large burly man struggled to answer but Kakuzu didn't bother releasing his grip. Despite the fact that he was larger than Kakuzu, he was still no match against him.

Monga glanced at his students and their client. Monga's two male genins, Mitsui and Natsu are unconscious and severely injured. Suzumebachi couldn't move from overuse of her chakra. All her bees are dead on her feet.

"That wasn't much of a challenge." Suien commented as he kicked Suzumebachi on her side earning a grunt of pain from the girl. Suien was unfazed by it.

"And whose fault is that?" Kakuzu peeked at his annoying partner.

Suien shrugged, looking a little bored. "How was I supposed to know?"

"The part where this man wasn't even in the Bingo book should have given you a hint." Kakuzu growled. The only motivation he always gets is when he is faced with a shinobi whose head raise quite a lot of money on the Bingo book.

How are they going to find the Yonbi Jinchuuriki if they are asking low level shinobi? Obviously those with higher clearances know village secrets but Jinchuurikis were one of the worst kept secret in every village, so Suien assumed this jounin knows. They also know that the Yonbi Jinchuuriki will be a Lava user, an ability inherited from the Yonbi. This was one of the reason Suien and Kakuzu were assigned on the job. Suien's water abilities are strong enough to counter Lava users. It was a shame that Kisame wasn't Suien's partner. They would be a water power team.

"Let's just kill them and go find another." Kakuzu said. It was better to kill their hostages than leave them alive and inform the country that a bunch of missing-nin is looking for Jinchuurikis. That would make their jobs difficult.

"Water Style: Water Fang Bullet!" Suien cast a jutsu and water from the nearby river started to surround the genins and the civilian and spikes started to form. "What the?" Suien's voice caught Kakuzu's attention and the two Akatsuki members watched as the Iwa genins and the civilian was protected with sand.

"Boil Style: Sinful Lotus Jutsu!" A vast of steam wrapped around the two Akatsuki partners. Kakuzu has to let go of Monga as he and Suien jumped off the steam before it started to explode.


"That was close, dattebayo!" Naruto said, excitedly though Han found nothing of all these exciting. They just spared a glance just in time to see Monga and his team including Kurame crushed down by a bunch of missing-nin. They weren't regular missing-nin either. They were S-class shinobi. Han was pretty sure those men knew they were there. He was not in the mood to fight right now. Not with three genins. This was supposed to be a regular C-rank mission!

The moment Gaara used his sand to protect their charges from attacks, Han sent a Boil style jutsu at their opponent and high tailed out of there. Han wondered why those shinobi are after Kurame?

Gaara used his sand to float next to them carrying Kurame and two of the genins. Fuu was busy bandaging them up. The blood from them is making Gaara itchy to try something and Han was grateful that Fuu was smart enough to bandage the injuries. Once they get back, Han noted to see if Fuu has any affinity for healing jutsus.

Naruto was carrying one of the genins at his back and Han has Monga with one of his arms on Han's shoulder while Han made sure Monga isn't going to tumble over. Monga is weak from chakra exhaustion. Han wondered what kind of jutsus those men possess to drive a jounin through chakra exhaustion in less than an hour.

"Han." Monga murmured.

"Don't talk Monga. You're suffering from chakra loss." Han replied.

"They were looking for Roshi-sama." Monga said as he struggled to stand beside Han, who is holding Monga up as they tree hopped away from the scene.

"Roshi? Why in the world would they want that old coot?" Han growled. Han hoped it wasn't a gambling debt. The man may be an avid gambler but is terrible at paying his debts. He wasn't as worst as Tsunade the Legendary Sucker more like Roshi just keep forgetting to pay his credits.

"Who's Roshi, sensei?" Naruto asked. Han and Monga stared at Naruto with Fuu and Gaara looking at him with curiosity.

Han didn't answer or more like, he doesn't know how to answer. Uncle? Former teacher? Missing-nin? Yonbi Jinchuuriki? Idiot? The list runs long.

Han abruptly stopped, followed by his students. Naruto looked at Han curiously.

"I know you're there. Come out." Han said as the two men in black cloaks with red clouds emerged from the shadows in front of them.

"What the? How'd they got there?" Naruto asked, surprised.

"Well, well." The spiky haired, beady eyed man spoke. "It would seem they have back-up but their headbands are all wrong." He tilted his head curious of the new shinobi and even more curious of the genin who bears his old village.

"This man has a fifty million ryou bounty on his head." The masked man said.

Suien's eyes twitched at Kakuzu. "Is money all you can think of?"

"Money is what matters." Kakuzu said seriously.

"Eh, oji-san, you're former Takigakure right?" Fuu asked then she slapped her fist on her palm. "Ah! I know you! After you failed the attempt assassination of the Shodai Hokage, you stole the hearts of the village elders and escaped! You're Kakuzu-senpai!" Fuu looked more excited than worried pointing at the mask guy.

"Did you just say Shodai Hokage?" Han gaped. "How old is this guy!?"

"I always wanted to meet him one day so I can be his friend, ssu!" Fuu twirled.

"Friend?" Monga gaped at her.

Han, Monga and Naruto sweat dropped. Han sighed. He needs to have a long conversation with Fuu about the meaning of friends. It would seem the girl was too eager with making friends it wouldn't matter who they are.

"Suien, are all the shinobi at Taki idiots nowadays?" Kakuzu asked.

Suien shrugged nonchalantly. "My former student, Shibuki is the new leader last time I heard. I knew that boy is the downfall of that village. He was too soft hearted and cared more about children than making them stronger. You could say Taki has gone down the bend."

"HEY! YOU DON'T INSULT SHIBUKI-SAMA, SSU!" Fuu cried angrily. "And I also know you! You're Suien-sama. You used to be Shibuki-sama's sensei but you tried to have him killed, stole the Hero's Water and fled the village."

These two are bad business. Naruto, Han and Gaara can sense it but Fuu seemed adamant to make one of those men her friends.

"Why are you attacking Iwa shinobi?" Han asked.

"It's not something you should worry about." Suien replied. "Tell us where you hid the Yonbi Jinchuuriki." He demanded.

Gaara and Fuu were taken aback. Naruto looked confused. "What's a Jinchuchiri?" he asked but was given a glare from Gaara as an answer.

"Why would you want to know?" Han asked. "What is your purpose with our Jinchuuriki?"

"Our purpose is our own." Kakuzu replied.

"Besides your large friend there, inform us that the Yonbi is no longer in custody of your village." Suien grinned. "He's lying. A Jinchuuriki is a village's weapon. There is no way a village such as yours would just let your Jinchuuriki leave like that."

Han and Gaara snorted at the comment. Shibuki let me leave. Fuu thought. But it did take a lot of pleading. For Gaara, no one was dumb enough to even come near him even his security detail. There are times Gaara would leave the village for a few weeks. He always comes back.

Roshi didn't actually leave just like that. Han thought. Roshi maybe an idiot in his book but he was smart enough to get away. He took an A-rank mission outside the village with three Anbu with him. A week after, a scroll was sent to the Tsuchikage with Roshi's hand writing saying he's defecting and a seal was on that scroll revealing Roshi's Anbu guards all bound and gag. Han found it extremely funny.

After that Onoki was erratic and increased the security on Han but the Iwa shinobi were more afraid of Han than Roshi so they usually kept their distance.

"Well this one did. As you can see, I'm trying to get my comrades to get treated so I appreciate it if you would leave us be." Han hissed, exuding killer intent as well.

"Doesn't Iwa have two Jinchuuriki?" Suien asked Kakuzu.

"We know little information about the Gobi. The Yonbi is our priority right now." Kakuzu hissed. "Besides, I don't want to lose my bounty." Suien rolled his eyes.

"Monga, I want you to take my students. I know there is a base near here. I want you to get help." Han instructed. He glanced at the trees knowing full well that the Konoha Anbu is watching and Han hoped that the Anbu follows the students so nothing would happen to them. He doesn't trust the Iwa shinobi at the border base to hurt his students. Han knows that Monga has enough strength to reached the base.

"What? But sensei!" Naruto started to complain about not leaving him and they can take care of themselves but Han didn't want any of it.

"These two are beyond your level. You better obey me Naruto. It's your own fault why we are on this mess!"

Naruto's shoulders drooped and he nodded.

"I can assist you, Han." Monga muttered but Han shook his head.

"Your weak, you can't do anything for now." Han said. "I want you to accompany my students." But then Han gave him a cold look, Monga could feel shivers on his back. "You better make sure my students are unharmed."

Unharmed? Monga blinked at Han. Monga and all of Iwa are aware of Han's cold personality towards people so he didn't expect Han to be protective of students who not even from Iwa, Monga was confused in all this. "Ha-hai." Monga replied, it was better not to be on Han's bad side.

"Ah!" Suien suddenly snapped his fingers. "Kakuzu, I just realized why that green head kid looks familiar!"

Han who realized where the conversation is headed didn't wait for them to continue. Monga is present and Han would prefer that Monga leaves here without any knowledge about his Jinchuuriki students.

"BOIL STYLE: UNRIVALED STRENGHT!" Steam poured out of Han's armor and he jumped, aiming his fist on the two partners. Kakuzu and Suien dodged the attack but BOOM!Han hit the ground and it shook off, cracked and broke off.

Suien and Kakuzu both cried in pain, steam started pouring out of the ground increasing the temperature in the area, inflicting burns on Suien and Kakuzu's exposed body parts.

Han's students all stared at their sensei with their mouths open wide. "Woah!" Naruto gaped in awe.

"GO!" Han yelled at them.

"TAJUU KAGE BUSHIN NO JUTSU (Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu)" Naruto cried and hundreds of Naruto clones surrounded the area. "HENGE! (Transform)" they all yelled and they turned into henge versions of Monga, Naruto, Fuu and Gaara with their unconscious charges and they all took off in different directions.

Suien and Kakuzu both growled with Suien eyeing where the genins took off to. Half of Suien's face and his right arm got burned and Kakuzu despite his solidifying technique, have both his arms burned though not as severe as Suien.

Nice work, Naruto. Han thought proudly, something he rarely feels.

Han knew that using his ordinary strength is not enough to fight off both of them. He will have to use some of the Gobi's strength. If they were looking for Jinchuuriki, then these two are strong enough to fight off Jinchuuriki themselves.

"You shouldn't worry about the genins." Han said coldly, eyeing Suien who was glancing around trying to figure out where the others went. "You should worry about me."

Steam was released on Han's furnace and a red cloak began to cover around the man. His eyes turned red and despite all the heat, the air turned cold and the feeling of darkness overwhelmed the area.

"Shit." Kakuzu and Suien cursed when they realized who they were facing.


"I still don't like leaving sensei like that, dattebayo!" Naruto said as they tree hopped. Gaara and Fuu glide effortlessly beside him and Monga.

"Don't worry." Monga replied. "Your sensei isn't someone easy to beat. He's also an S-class Iwa shinobi." And one of the most feared Jinchuuriki who wiped out battalions in the third shinobi war. Monga thought but didn't voice out. His loyalty for Iwa kept him from revealing such delicate information.

"I say once we put you guys in a safe place, I'm going back there!" Naruto declared.

"I agree, ssu!" Fuu nodded.

Gaara didn't say anything but Naruto and Fuu knows he'll follow them too.

"What? No." Monga said firmly, fear began to grip his chest on what Han could do to him. "Han told me to keep an eye on you and there is no way in hell I am going to put you in danger! I like my head on my shoulders, thank you very much."

"Figured you could say that, ssu!" Fuu giggled and blew powder at Monga's face. The man dropped unconscious on the ground.

"That was cool!" Naruto grinned. "How'd you do that, dattebayo?"

"It's one of my special jutsus, ssu." Fuu said proudly.

"You got to teach me to do that, do you know how many ways I can get away with pranking people with that jutsu?" Naruto gleamed at his teammate.

Gaara stared at the unconscious Monga and stared at his teammates and then he look at his sand. Your teammates are idiots. Kill them! Shukaku whispered.

"You could have waited until we reached the Iwa base before you render him unconscious." Gaara said.

"Huh? Why?" Fuu asked.

Gaara sighed and asked, "Who will carry him then?" Gaara's sand was only enough to carry three people, including himself and creating more sand requires chakra that Gaara doesn't want to waste. Naruto and Fuu are both carrying the two male genins on their backs and Monga happens to be one very big and very heavy person.

"Oh, crap!" Naruto slap his forehead.


It's a beautiful day to take a walk. Well, at least that's what Roshi was feeling right now. He won a really good hand at a casino, bought himself a good amount of sake and decided to take a venture at border of his own country.

It has been awhile since he has seen Iwa. He didn't know what is happening right now. He even heard some strange rumors about how Onoki, the old geezer, just blew off his Tsuchikage's office roof three times. The reason was unknown.

Then his thoughts wondered to Han his nephew, student and fellow Jinchuuriki and how he is doing. Knowing Han, he'd probably left the village with that hate look whenever he glanced at another human being. He'd be off in the mountains, enjoying his solitude. It was such a shame. The kid was young. He should be out wooing women, getting a drink and enjoying life. Not spending time in his room, drinking hot tea and read.

Roshi stopped on his tracks. There's something wrong in the air today. He sense demonic chakra leaking in the atmosphere. It was very familiar. Han! Roshi snapped in realization. What the hell is going on? Han may not be a people's person but he tries never to get out of control. The last time Roshi has felt Han's demonic chakra was back at the third shinobi war where Han killed everyone in sight. And when he meant everyone, he meant everyone, enemies, civilian, allies and even his own fellow Iwa shinobi comrades. Han changed after that. He looked at life differently and everyone in Iwa feared him more than Roshi.

Roshi hurried on his steps. There better be a good reason why Han is releasing demonic chakra right now. Wait, what is that? Orange? What the hell kind of person wears orange? Roshi saw three shinobi and from the looks of it they look like genin. He just watch as one of them rendered an overgrown Iwa jounin unconscious. They even bear different shinobi village symbols.

Oh, you've got to be kidding me! Roshi sighed when he heard one of the Yonbi's daily yells.


In the end, Gaara took one of the genins. Naruto winds up carrying Monga, though he struggled. "Why am I the one carrying him? Fuu was the one who slip him that sleeping jutsu, dattebayo!"

Fuu giggled while Gaara glared at him but they didn't say anything and Naruto continued grumbling under his breath muttering about how Gaara likes watching them suffer.

Gaara was actually surprised there was such a jutsu. Fuu explained about her abilities are somewhat related to insects like his spider web jutsus and the sleeping jutsu she inflicts on others was more like a sedative, similar to how predatory insects injects to capture prey.

Gaara only knew the sleeping possum jutsu he used when he wants to relinquish control on himself to Shukaku.

"Hey, uh, guys! Wait up, will you? Ugh!" Naruto was struggling with Monga. He attempted to carry the man piggy back but with the type of body size he has made it very difficult. He keeps on switching positions to get the easier way to move.

Fuu tried to help Naruto and Gaara just watch the struggles. He could just create more sand and carry them all but he didn't feel like it and he could feel Shukaku chuckling on his head, Gaara can be sadistic on his own.

"That's it!" Naruto yelled. "Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" three more Narutos appeared and carried Monga effortlessly behind them. "Yeah! Let's go guys!" and they continued to tree hopped until Fuu and Gaara stopped.

"What's wrong, dattebayo?" Naruto asked.

"Sabaku Kyuu!" Gaara cried but large looking fire balls were thrown at them. Gaara's sand defense automatically protected them. Fuu flow up and shiny sparkles were coming out of her mouth. "Hiden: Hiding In Scale Powder Jutsu!" an explosion occurred followed by an extremely bright white light that engulfed them that it made it difficult for them to see anything.

"WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? ARE YOU TRYING TO BLIND ME?!" a voice yelled angrily behind the shadows of the tree. Naruto didn't wait for anything but jumped and tried to kick the guy but he dodged it and grabbed Naruto's ankle and kicked him back to his teammates. Gaara's sand caught him.

"Who are you?" Gaara growled. He thought at first it was one of that Taki missing-nin who probably escaped Han but the voice was different and he was showing an incredible amount of chakra. More than Gaara has sensed from those missing-nin and Han-sensei.

An older looking man appeared wearing red and purple robes. He has red hair tied in a pony tail and his face was covered with a mustache and a short beard. There was a vertical line that covered his nose all the way to his ears. He was rubbing his eyes, frantically. "And here I was wondering why four Iwa shinobi and one civilian were being carried by three non-Iwa shinobi."

"What's that to you?" Naruto scorned.

"I may not be an Iwa shinobi anymore but I'm pretty sure I would be very curious as to why you are holding my comrades hostage?"

"We're not holding them hostage, dattebayo! We're going to find them help!" The orange clad Konoha genin said loudly at Roshi.

"I just saw you render an Iwa jounin unconscious." Roshi said, though he did wonder how an Iwa jounin got beaten that easily. Has Iwa gone to the dogs after he left?

"He wouldn't let us help Han-sensei, ssu." The green haired, cross dresser from Taki said.

Roshi blinked. "Did you just say Han?"

"Yes." The red haired, black eyed boy from Suna replied.

"Tall guy, red armor with steam coming out?"

"Yes, ssu." The green haired replied.

"Stuck up, sadistic, tea loving man?"

"That's him, dattebayo. You know who he is?" The orange clad said.

"Yes. Do you?"

"Yeah, he's our sensei, dattebayo." The blond replied.

Sensei? Roshi thought. Did Han defected and join a different village? Onoki wouldn't be happy about that but the question is which village? He could see Taki, Konoha and Suna on the genins' protectors.

"Who are you?" The red head forehead tattooed genin eyed him suspiciously.

"Oh, I forgot. My name is Roshi."

"ROSHI?" They genin gaped.


AUTHOR'S NOTE: I hope I wrote this one right. Ugh. It was a nightmare! By the way, I just read Naruto Gaiden. It's okay but I still wished the story would just, you know, end. Now, I'm going to check papers for the moment. Life of a teacher…