After becoming official genins, team seven did not expect to do the work of a D-rank missions. Of course they knew that they will not jump into epic battles and fighting powerful ninjas, but after chasing Tora,the cat belonging to the daimyo's wife, was the last Tora and heading back to return her, she was vigorously clawing Naruto's face.
"Tora!" Madam Shijimi cried, ripping the cat out of Naruto arms and hugging the cat to death. Tora in her arm was devastated, tried to escape. Madam Shijimi then pays a large sum of money to the Hokage and leaves the room.
"No wonder the cat kept escaping" Sakura commented feeling sorry for capturing her.
"Heh, that what the stupid cat deserves" Naruto said still angry with cat.
"The mission was a success and was pay for. Well then, Kohana can you give me the updated list of missions and Iruka could you take the money and store it" the Hokage said as he shuffles papers around and nodded Iruka leaving the room.
"Hey Kohana! I haven't seen you in a long time" Naruto happily shouts at a dark eyed teenaged girl with shoulder length brown hair, wearing a bandana forehead protector, and a standard leaf shinobi outfit. She walks to the Hokage's table
"Same goes for you Naruto" she smiles at Naruto as she hands the Hokage a couple scroll labeled with D and C. "I can't believe you actually became a genin, looks like I lost my bet" she shrugs.
"You what!" Naruto shouts with anger "You didn't believe I actually became a genin"
"Naruto stop shouting " Sakura said pinching Naruto's cheek, he had no choice but to calm down "who is she anyway" she asked
"She's the Hokage's granddaughter and a trainee for hokage guard platoon, meaning she is also a skilled kunoichi" Kakashi answered
"Wow really" Sakura looks over amazed at Kohana who was smiling proudly.
The hokages clears his throat " let's see there is a babysitting job and weed picking for-" He was cut off by madam Shijimi screaming
"Tora ran off again!" Madam shijimi voice is heard through the door
Lord Hokage sighs "Or you can catch-"
"No way!" Naruto shouted catching the whole room's attention, he makes an x with his arms "I'm not going to do any losey housework. Why can't we just get a real mission!" he continues
"Naruto!" the Hokage calls his name and proceeds to explain the missions ranking system to him and and his teammates, but then realizes team seven is not paying attention to him and are listening to Naruto's story about ramen. He sighs and looks up to his granddaughter.
"You might want to give him a C-ranked mission now, since you don't want him to take you out. Now do you?" she said smirking at her grandfather
Lord third's face turned bright red with embarrassment knowing what she meant. catching the genins and Kakashi's attention
"Kakashi do you think they are ready for a C-ranked mission" the Hokage asks Kakashi letting his face return to normal
"Yes, I do think they are ready" Kakashi answered, getting Naruto's attention and stands up straight
"Allright, Tazuna you may come in" he announces as the door opens
"These are my escorts" a brown haired middle aged man said as he came through the door taking a sip of his sake bottle" they are nothing but a bunch of brats"
"Tazuna these are the escorts that you requested. You did pay for a C-ranked mission, right?" Kohana asked making Tazuna huff with anger
"Of course" Tazuna huffed again
"Team seven this is Tazuna a bridge builder from the Land of Waves, he has requested you to escort him back home. You will leave tomorrow" Lord third said
"Alright, team seven we will meet at the gates at seven in the morning and remember to pack for a two week trip, understood." Kakashi said
"Yes, sensei" the genins answered
"Very well then you are all dismissed and good luck on your mission" lord third said nodding at the genin
The next morning the village was still coming alive. The villagers are up and about opening their shops, the gates had been opened an hour prior. Team seven had arrived at the same time with Tazuna, Soon after Kakashi arrived.
"Wow! look at that Kakashi sensei made it on time" Naruto loudly pointed out
"I always come on time for missions" Kakashi said in his usual laid back voice
The group left the leaf and walked down the main road, look back at the village gates slowly vanishing behind them. They continue their long long walk and the mission was going peaceful until they came across a lone road. Kakashi noticed a small puddle of water and did not react wanting to see his his genins had noticed. Akane was the only genin who noticed the puddle she looks at her teammates who were looking around aimlessly.
'These idiots haven't noticed the puddle, do they not know it has not rained in weeks. Even if it's a puddle they should be aware of their surrounding what if a ninja from another village attacked us-" Akane's thoughts were cut of when two figures with chains wrapped around Kakashi-sensei and ripped him apart 'Damn I shouldn't have distracted myself' Akane reached for a Kunai and threw two of them at a chains links, logging the enemy to a tree. She was not the only one who reacted but also Sasuke, he threw a shuriken and a kunai logging the other to the tree and he moved quickly to the two ninjas and kicked both them in the face. Meanwhile Sakura and Naruto stood in shock of what had happened to Kakashi and were surprise with Akane's and Sasuke's actions. Sasuke jumped back next to where Akane was standing, while Sasuke was catching his breath, Akane moved towards the two ninja cautiously with kunai in each hand, she was going for the kill, but both ninjas got lose and charged for Tazuna and the other for Naruto. Akane moved out of the way on time and moved swiftly to block the ninja charging towards Naruto, while the one charging to Tazuna, Sakura moved in front of Tazuna to protect him, but Sasuke also moved in front of both Tazuna and Sakura ready to block the attack. When Akane thought she was late, Both ninjas were stopped by Kakashi. The genin and Tazuna were all shocked with his sudden appearance.
"Hi" The genin looked at Kakashi who casually held the two ninjas in both arms. "Naruto sorry I didn't help you right away, I didn't mean for you to get hurt, I did think you would freeze up like that" he said as he walked toward Tazuna "Good job Sasuke and Akane you both were very quick to react and you too Sakura"
'I was useless and Sasuke was cool like he has done done this a thousand times and Akane had to protect me… Damn weren't they scared at all' Naruto felt embarrassed that had began to rise he felt like a coward
"Hey" Sasuke called out.
Naruto looked up with surprise "Huh"
"You are not hurt are you scaredy cat" Sasuke smirked at Naruto who felt the even more embarrassed than before but it turned to anger
"Sasuke!" Naruto yelled
"Naruto! Stand still these ninja had poison in their claws we need to take it out of you quickly" Naruto quickly began to panic "We have to open the wound and drain the poison out of your blood, so don't move around that will spread the poison. By the way " Tazuna looked at Kakashi with hesitation "We need to talk" Kakashi tied the ninja to a tree "They are chunin from the Village Hidden in the Mist their specialty is relentless attack, they keep fighting no matter what the sacrifice"
"How did you know about our ambush?" one of the mist ninja asked
"Akane and I seemed to be the only ones who noticed it. A puddle of wate on a clear day like today, and when it has not rained in weeks"
"If that was the case then you did you leave it to the genin to do the fighting" Tazuna asked
"I could have taken them out quickly, but then I would have learned nothing I had to know who their target was and what they were after" Kakashi looked at Tazuna out the corner of his eye
"Huh, What are getting at" Tazuna said nervously while Kakashi began to dig out answers from Tazuna who apparently did not have enough money to request a B-Ranked or higher mission and lied.
"We are genin this mission is too advanced for our ninja training" Sakura said sympathetically "We should go back I think we should treat Naruto's wounds and get the poison out as soon as possible" Kakashi looked at Sakura and then glanced at Naruto who looked at his hand
"Naruto's hand could be a burden to the mission. I guess we should head back to the village" Kakashi said. Naruto felt anger arise from him and and pulled a kunai out and stabbed the kunai into the back of his hand where the wound was Sasuke,Sakura and Tazuna gasped in shock watching the blood spill from his hand
"Why am I so different… I" Naruto grunted in pain
"Naruto stop that what are you doing" Sakura yelled at Naruto
"I trained so hard by myself to become a ninja and to one day achieve my dream from now on I will never back down again and let someone like Akane rescue me like I'm some coward and I will not lose to Sasuke. Upon wound I swear this pledge Believe it. Oh, and bridge builder I will complete this mission and protect you with this kunai" Naruto finished with a grin and sweating from the pain. "Don't worry I'll be fine"
"Naruto, uh that was really cool how you took out the kunai to get the poison out and all, but if you lose anymore blood you are going to die" there was silence among the group and Naruto began to sweat more and his face began to turn blue. "It would be a good idea to stop the bleeding now seriously" Kakashi said smiling behind his mask which that made Naruto start to panic and start blabbering about how he is still too young to die. "Show me your hand" Kakashi paid close attention Naruto's hand and saw the wound had started to heal 'So this is the power of the Nine tailed fox' . Kakashi garabed a clean bandage and started to wrap the wound "You are going to be fine"
'Of course he will be fine, he is an Uzumaki which grants him healing abilities' Akane though and wondered if Kakashi knew this as well
The team continued their mission again and made their way onto a boat crossing the water to the Land of Waves. The way to the shore was long but felt even longer because of the heavy Fog that surrounded them. As there was silence a dark figure appeared and as they got closer the figure turned out to be the half made bridge still being under construction.
"Wow it huge!" Naruto shouted as he looked up onto the bridge
"Hey I told you to be quiet, Why do you think we have to row over here and through the fog. We don't want to be seen" The rower said trying to hid his anger while Naruto covered his mouth with both of his hand not trying to make anymore noise
" before we reach the pier I have some question you have to answer" Kakashi said quietly. Tazuna looked down knowing he had to tell him the truth "The men who are after you I need to know why. If you don't tell us I'm afraid we will have to end this mission when we drop you on the shore"
" I have no choice but to tell you the truth. Now I want you to tell you the truth" Tazuna had began to explain how the Land of Waves was poor and the one behind the attempts on his life was a businessman named Gato who sells drugs and contraband and takes over business using missing nins. Gato took over the Land of Waves transport and shipping a year prior and fears the bridge will make him lose control of the Land of Waves. The land of Waves economy will improve with the bridge and is the last hope the people will have. Kakashi agreed to continue the mission. Once the were getting closer to the shore the fog began to clear, they went under the bridge and on the other side the sky was clear and bright blue, the houses were simple and small built on top of the water. The team got off the boat and headed to Tazuna's home. They walked into a forest and Naruto threw his kunai into the bush 'claiming' they were being followed. Kakashi investigated and found a snow rabbit scared half to death. Naruto ran and hugged the rabbit apologizing for attacking it.
"Look out!" Kakashi yelled a a massive blade spun out from a tree and headed toward Tazuna but Tazuna along the rest ducked the blade. The blade logged into a tree and a ninja stepped onto the blade and glanced back at the team.
"Well if it isn't Zabuza Momochi a rogue ninja from the Hidden Mist" Kakashi announced. Naruto began to charge towards the ninja but was stopped by Kakashi. "You'll get in the way. If I have to fight that means I'll need this" Kakashi began move head tilted headband and wore it like on his forehead as he opened his eye to reveal the sharingan.
"Kakashi of the Sharingan eye, did I get that right?" Zabuza asked
'How does he have the sharingan only an Uchiha can have the Sharingan did he- no I can't distracted not now. I'll have to ask him later' Sasuke looked surprised to find his sensei with his clan's kekkei genkai
'So it's true he possesses the Sharingan then that must mean the other rumor about him coping ninjutsu must true as well?' Akane thought
"Get in diamond formation! protect Tazuna and stay out of this fight I taught you teamwork now use it" Kakashi commanded "I'm ready"
The area surrounding area began to be covered by thick Mist. Zabuza grabbed his blade and stood on the water gathering large amount of chakra and mist began to become thicker and thicker and all of a sudden Zabuza appeared behind Sakura and Sasuke. The genin jumped as the he swung his blade. Naruto grabbed Tazuna and jumped few feet behind Zabuza. Kakashi had stopped the blade and had stabbed him in the gut with a kunai, but instead of blood pouring out it was water.
"A water clone" Akane said quietly and noticed Zabuza behind Kakashi. The clone turned into a puddle of water and Kakashi and Zabuza clashed again and continued until Zabuza ran onto the water gathering more chakra, Kakashi still on land also gathered chakra. Zabuza began to make hand signs and as he made them he noticed Kakashi also copying the same signs and both created a water dragon which both dragon crashed into each other canceling each other out. They began to clash again but Kakashi let his guard down for a split second and was caught in a water prison jutsu. Naruto ran from formation and created a hundred clones. Zabuza created another water clone and defeated the clones and sent Naruto flying toward the other direction of his team. He threw Sasuke a fuma shuriken and it took Sasuke a second to realize Naruto's plan, Sasuke threw the shuriken at Zabuza who moved to the side, but then the Shuriken made a 'poofed' to reveal Naruto who transformed himself in the shuriken and threw a kunai at Zabuza. Zabuza dismissed the water prison and Kakashi was free at last and with no time to waste he attacked Zabuza sending him to the tree Kakashi had his chance to end Zabuza, a senbon was thrown into Zabuza's throat ending him. The attacker was revealed to be a Mist ANBU who picked up Zabuza's body and thanked the team and disappeared.
"That ANBU they-" Akane was cut off by Kakashi who fainted and the genin took him to Tazuna's house. The next morning Kakashi woke up and began to discuss what had happened yesterday.
"Akane explain to the others what the ANBU did" Kakashi said
"What do you mean! we saw what she did to Zabuza!" Naruto yelled
"Let Akane explain"
"Well this ANBU was from the Hidden Mist, who specialize in tracking missing a ninja's body holds many secrets, it's their job for the tracker to kill the missing nin and also they have to study the body right there on the spot and destroy it. Which was the opposite of what this tracker did"
"Yeah, but the tracker killed Zabuza" Sakura said
"Yes, but remember they have to study the body meaning that they are educated on the human body, and the weapon she used was a senbon which is used in acupuncture and hitting the right point will put someone in a temporary state of death meaning that this tracker was not there to kill Zabuza"
"S-so y-you m-mean" Naruto stuttered
"Yes, Zabuza is still alive" Kakashi finished the sentence and a sudden chill was in the atmosphere.
Authors Note:
Hope you enjoy this and sorry I was going to up load this but the Cubs won the world series! (yes I'm a Cub's fan) and since this was special, I combined the next chapter to this one so it's much longer that usual (Yay^.^).I forgot to mention I might not upload as often because I have an addiction to playing Battlefield 1 and Skyrim the special edition and it will get worst with the release of Dishonored 2 (yeah I have a problem).
Also, I created the character Kohana for hokage guard platoon along with some few more characters who will be revealed soon. Kohana means little flower
