I do not own Naruto in any format, this is fan fiction
After seeing the cat runaway from his owner so many times, Naruto was about to tell the lady that if the cat ran away one more time, that was because she was making the poor feline suffer. So she either was more gentle with him, or he was going to keep him a this home. The woman screams about how dare he talk to her in that way, the situation was clearly seeing when the hokage put the catin question in front of both of them and asked for them to each call the cat
The woman used every tick she could figure she could try. She even tried bribing the car with a can of very expensive sardiners, Naruto old had to call him with both his hands open and called for Tora, the cat ran towards him and was purring up a storm while he was touching him. The woman asked why her cst hated her, Naruto explained that the reason, she simply was too rough on him. She moistened to his advice and before too long the cat and woman left feeling a lot happier.
The next day Sasuke seemed to be extra excited, Mikoto and Naruto knew exactly why. They both got a message telling them that Kakashi's team would now be able to do C rank missions. Mikoto actually bought some rather nice pieces of gear for both of them to celebrate in secret. She knew her beloved would tell her to buy only for their son, and that he did not want to be a futheru burden in her. A teacher's salary was not as much as say a good C rank mission, but it was a safer profession than doing missions after all.
Naruto began to wonder why did his beloved placed the Uchiha Clan Fan where it clearly should be the Uzumaki Swirl. She told him that the new Uchiha Council had decided that he was to take the Uchiha name and the Clan Symbol as soon as he was able to do C rank missions, it would help the remaining clan to build a good reputation, and to be known they were still around. Itachi only killed Fugaku and his coconspirators. There were still quite a few Uchiha, and as Clan head he was supposed to represent them.
So as they both ran towards the tower Sasuke asked him, "Dad, are you angry that the council decided to change your name? And are you excited to do anything other than D rank missions?" Naruto did not look back and only answered that the council changing his name did not affect him, but if they tried to separate him from his mate and son, that was a different story. As for the missions he would have to see first. No reason to get excited if the only thing they did was bandit extermination, message delivery and escort missions.
They both arrived and Sakura was the first to scream that he should not wear the fan symbol, a quick glare by both him and Sasuke put a stop to the ranting of the pink banshee. They both entered the Hokage's office and he looked like he was going to give them another D rank mission, the C rank mission scrolls were in the same shelf after all.
"An escort mission, a bridge builder came to our village to buy construction supplies, and is in need of an escort to return safely to wave. His name is Tazuna I think that is the man knocking right now." Tazuna looked more like a homeless drunk, than a respected bridge builder. When he looks at the group he began to laugh. "Hokage, don't tell me these useless brats are my escort!? The cyclops who is a wonder he can even get dressed in the morning. The pinkete that looks weaker than your average waitress. The brat next to her looks like he has an entire pole up his ass."
He then walked over to Naruto and touched his ears. "And don't get me started on the freak, who looks like he should be in a circus side show." Naruto walked over to his Minato. "Lord Hokage, we are sorry to say that we will need another mission. It seems the client does not want to live very long." Minato did not understand why Naruto was being so formal, till he saw what he had in his hands. 'Oh, shit I need to stop him.!?'
In a blur he disappeared and was about to cut Tazuna's head clean off with a pair of dual kodachi. The infamous dual kodachi he heard from his hunter reports. It took Minato a great deal of effort to block the strike, and to calm him down. Tazuna looked like he was going to faint. The murderous glare he was receiving was nothing to joke about.
"Naruto you can't kill your client!? I covered for you last time, but not again!?" Naruto glared at him too. "This bastard made fun of my son!? He insulted me by calling me, a clan head, a sideshow freak!? And he insulted the son of one of our greatest heroes, the White Fang!? I should kill him for the insults on my clan alone!?"
Minato remembered then that indeed Naruto was considered the head of the Uchiha Clan. Tazuna was surprised by hearing the brat had a son and was a clan head. "I believe introductions will help. This is Kakashi Hakate, former ANBU Captain, this is Sakura Haruno, and these two are Naruto Uchiha, honored head of the Uchiha Clan, and his son Sasuke Uchiha."
Tazuna asked Naruto to forgive him, he was just testing them to see if they had the backbone to do the job. Naruto put his swords away and he accepts his apology. "But he looks like to be your age, how is he your father?" Sasuke only said it was a clan secret. Sakura called it complete bullshit.
Kakashi told him to get ready for a two week mission. Both Naruto and Sasuke held out a storage scroll and told him they were ready for a month. Sakura was the only one that had to haul ass and get ready. They other walked towards the village gate. Tazuna began to ask him if he had any trouble being a parent at his age? This lead to a much more friendly discussion on the difficulty of parenting. Tazuna had a daughter and he knew too well that Naruto was indeed a parent when he heard him talk.
Sakura took an entire hour to pack, Tazuna and the others looked bored. Naruto was twirling a kunai using his chakra, and Kakashi was complementing him on his execution of a high chakra control exercise. Sasuke took out another and did the same exercise. "Dad, is always pushing himself and me to try and master our control. I have no clue why." Naruto put away his kunai and told him to ensure he was properly prepared. Any parent wants their child to be safe after all.
They group began to walk towards Wave, and Naruto commented how nice the weather was, Sakura mentioned that he was nuts, they had no rain in about a month and the sun was hot enough to bake an egg. That is when they noticed the puddle Naruto was looking at a few hundred feet away. He one walking with the group was a shadow clone. The real one had sneaked beneath the genjustu and was behind the two idiots who were arguing.
"Brother, the pink brat is right this is a stupid idea!? If they had no rain in such a long time, we stick out like a green thumb!?" His brother yelled back that he did not have any brilliant ideas before!? They were genin they could easily kill the target and get away!? Naruto had just about enough of the bickering. "I agree with the first guy, this genjutsu sucks! Only a complete moron would even think of using it!? "See brother, someone agrees with me! Wait a second whip the hell are you!?"
He used his lightning style: paralyzing jitsu on both of them. "Who me? Just one of the worthless genin walking with your target. Now boys, we can do this two ways!? You can tell me who your client is and what is your mission, or I will mind fuck you both and then kill you. Oh and don't bother with the chain. I already cut it."
"We work for Zabuza Momochi, and he was hired by a gangster named Gato to kill the bridge builder, his bridge would cause him to lose control of his territory. We are refuges from Kiri, we only did this job to earn a living!?" They both explained about the civil war that still was happening in Kirigakure. Naruto understood and told them to go and tell Zabuza he wanted to have a word with him. They understood and left.
"Who was that Naruto?" Kakashi clearly wanted to know what he had done. "I think it is more important that Tazuna came clean about this mission? We are up against Zabuza Momochi and I want to know how is this a C rank, when we have the demon of the mist as our opponent!?" Tazuna told them that Hus village was poor and that they had not enough money to pay a higher mission. Kakashi wanted to call the mission off due to client dishonesty.
"We can still do the mission, we only require for you to send one of your summons to deliver a back up request. But we can get him to wave at the very least till our backup arrives and helps us complete mission." Kakashi decided to put it up to a vote, three in favor against one. He sent Paku yo deliver the scroll, the dog was not that happy about it.
Tazuna fell down on his knees thanking them for not simply canceling the mission. "Get up, we are wasting time, and I have a meeting to get to."The group had no clue what he was talking about when he mentioned a meeting. The group walked quite a bit till they reached a white rabbit. Sakura was going on about how cute it was. "Damn,a substitution target!? Everyone get down now!?" Naruto clearly understood and both Kakashi and him had their weapons in hand as the rest ducked the big sword that came their way, Naruto deflected the sword and it came to get stuck on a tree.
"Hey, Zabuza I told the two clueless wonders to tell you I wanted a word with you, did the two morons fail at delevering my message too!?" A pson was heard laughing,and they looked at where the sword was, standing on it was Zabuza Momochi. "Sharingan, no wonder my subordinates were so scared, got some rather nice killer intent there too, I just wanted to make a good first impression."
"How about you and your daughter get down and we can have a nice discussion about a few topics." Zabuza was clearly surprised by the mention of his daughter. "Sure thing why not!?" A person wearing a hunter mask and Zabuza came down. Kakashi had no clue what was going on!? The hunter masked young woman thanked him for not harming her pet rabbit, when it was easy for him to do. "Gato is going to betray you, I hunt bandits and they sometimes talk about potential employers, some said he is broke, others say he killed friends of theirs when it was time to get paid."
Zabuza said Gato told him and his group such were rumors by rival crime bosses. "Look if the civil war was not happening, you would still be one of the seven swordsman of the mist, and would not be caught dead working for such scum." Zabuza could only smile as Naruto was indeed right. "So what is your propose you want us yo do?" Naruto shut off the chakra flowing to his eyes and they returned to looking quite normal. "Fake an injury, and give me a month's time to get irrefutable proof of his betrayal. When that happens we take care of the scum, or we fight if I fail to get the proof."
Sakura looked like she was about to crap in her pants from all the killer intent between the masked guy and Naruto. "Sure, we can do that, but better train during that time, cause your two friends will need it by the looks of it. If we fight I want to be a decent fight, and if not I want them to be useful."
Naruto agreed to that and Zabuza and his daughter left. She took off her mask and was petting her rabbit, while Naruto and Zabuza were having their meeting. Sasuke got a real close look of her face, as she was playing with her rabbit. As soon as she left he could have sworn she winked at him.
"Well, that could have gone worse." Kakashi was clearly worried for the group. "Hey dad, don't you think she was rather cute?" Sakura glared at them both when she heard that. "For you maybe son, for me I have the single most beautiful woman alive with me, Mikoto your mother." Tazuna laughed as they walked towards the shoreline. "Most husbands either think that or say that. I felt the same thing about my late wife."
