Naruto: The Tale Of Two Gods
Chapter 8
Haku
"Father!" a woman cried out as she embraced Tazuna. The man returned the embrace before letting her go.
"These four are here to protect me while I finish the bridge. This is Tsunami, my daughter," Tazuna told Teaam 7 who nodded and greeted Tsunami.
"We... need... somewhere... to.. talk... privately," a weak Kakashi muttered through his ragged breathing. The battle had taken its toll on him and he was exhausted and chakra depleted. His back was still injured but the bleeding had stopped.
Tazuna nodded and led them to a room where he let the team have their privacy. Kakashi signalled to Naruto who nodded and set up silencing seals and privacy seals. Kakashi stopped leaning on Sasuke and walked over to Hinata who started healing his back.
"Now that I can cut the act, we can finally set up a plan to take down Gato. Any ideas?" Kakashi asked his team and Naruto already had his trademark devious grin on his face.
"Well my idea is to start scouting with my clones, find his base, recon and find out the numbers of thugs he has, then infiltrate and start picking them off one by one till we get to Gato himself, then execute him," Naruto told his team and they all nodded.
"I support Naruto's plan and will support him with my own clones," Sasuke chimed in and Naruto gave him a grateful smile.
"Good plan Naruto. We'll start work tomorrow. Unfortunately I won't be able to help till I recover from my wound and chakra exhaustion. Hinata-chan may you stay for a while to start healing my back?" Kakashi asked the quiet girl who nodded.
"Of course sensei," Hinata said and Kakashi eye smiled.
"Alright then. Naruto, tomorrow you'll be tasked with locating Gato's base and recon. Sasuke, your tasked with guarding Tazuna while he works on the bridge. Hinata-chan, your tasked with helping me back to my feet. Understood?" Kakashi said and received nods in return.
"Good. Dismissed," Kakashi told them and Naruto and Sasuke left to rest while Hinata stayed to begin the healing process for Kakashi.
The air was misty as Naruto sat atop a roof overlooking Gato's base of operations. So far he had observed there to be about 500 mercenaries and a few low level nuke-nin among his ranks. It helped he had eyes everywhere thanks to his clones also observing the situation. He couldn't locate the sex slaves or drug cache but those would be found soon enough. Getting up from his spot on the roof, Naruto felt a presence behind him appear.
"What are you doing here, shinobi-san?" the hunter-nin asked as Naruto turned around and looked them in the eyes. He perked up when he sensed the icy feel of the hunter-nin's chakra.
"None of your business Yuki-san," Naruto said and he felt the sharp blade of a kunai at his throat when the hunter-nin appeared behind him.
"How do you know of my heritage?" the hunter-nin asked icily. Naruto smirked and disappeared.
'Genjutsu? Shit," the hunter-nin thought before feeling the cold metal of Naruto's nodachi on their throat. Freezing, the hunter-nin realized they were trapped.
"Now to see what's behind the mask, Yuki-san," Naruto said dangerously, pressing his blade into their throat, daring them to move a muscle before bringing his hand up and removing the mask. Instantly Naruto flipped over the hunter-nin, maintaining his sword's position as he did so. And when he looked into their face, his heart skipped a beat.
"Well you're quite beautiful, Yuki-chan," Naruto said while gazing into the chocolate brown eyes of a girl maybe a year or two older than him. She had black hair and a pale complexion while sporting a light pink lip stick.
"Thank you shinobi-san. But what do you want with me?" the hunter-nin asked while blushing slightly at his compliment.
"Where's Zabuza?" Naruto asked, pressing his sword into her throat slightly harder, drawing a slight trail of blood.
"Whatever do you mean shinobi-san?" the hunter-nin asked nervously.
"Don't play dumb with me. Give me the information now or I'll kill you and go find him myself and finish him off. He's already weak from the fake death trance you sent him into. Clever by the way. Might've fooled a fresh genin team but you're dealing with the students of Sharingan no Kakashi," Naruto said and the hunter-nin gulped.
"If you take me to him then you might find I have an interesting deal to propose to him and yourself," Naruto told her and she nodded.
"I don't have much of a choice. Fine. I'll give you a location to meet me and I'll take you to him. Meet me in 3 days near the cliff at the southern side of the island. It'll be a meadow," the hunter-nin told him and he nodded.
"If this is an ambush, I'll be accompanied by my team and Kakashi himself who is back at full strength. So don't try anything," Naruto said and the hunter-nin nodded.
"Also the name is Haku. Yuki Haku. I'll see you then, shinobi-san," Haku said before disappearing into an ice mirror.
Flowers fluttered in the wind as Naruto arrived to the sunlit meadow, the scent of the many flowers filling his nose as he waited for Haku to arrive and take him to Zabuza. After what seemed like forever the air turned cold as Haku arrived through an ice mirror.
"I see your team isn't with you shinobi-san," Haku said while looking around, making sure there wasn't anyone surrounding her.
"Ah relax. I was bluffing anyways. And it's Naruto by the way. So you can quit with the shinobi-san shit," Naruto said while walking towards her. She nodded and turned to lead him to her and Zabuza's hideout.
Zabuza lay in bed when Naruto and Haku entered. He tried to sit up in shock but was stuck due to the near death state he was put in a few days ago.
"Why did you bring him here Haku?" Zabuza asked menacingly. Haku gulped and stepped towards her master.
"He says he has a proposal for us, Zabuza-sama," She said respectfully. Zabuza huffed and glared at the black and blonde haired boy.
"What do you want?" he asked, more of a demand really.
"Well Zabuza-san, it looks like your worse for wear. I have a question. Aren't you tired of wandering? I can offer you and Haku a home in return for aiding us in our top secret mission," Naruto told him and Zabuza's eyes widened.
"Kid I don't want a home. Kiri was my only home and it'll stay that way," Zabuza said but in his mind he was thinking about finally achieving his dream of giving a home to Haku, his adoptive daughter in his eyes. She was the only thing that kept him going throughout most of his time spent as a nuke-nin.
"Look at it this way Zabuza-san, if not for you, do it for Haku. The risk of being killed is next to none and she will finally be able to have a home," Naruto told him knowing that was his weakness because of the momentary flash of consideration that appeared on his face when he talked about Haku. He knew he won when Zabuza let out a sigh.
"Fine. I'll go along with this on one condition," Zabuza said and Naruto nodded.
"Name it," Naruto told him, a small smirk appearing on his face knowing he had won a powerful ally to Konoha's side.
"After we deal with whatever mission you have, Kakashi and I will face off in one on one combat while you and that duck ass face off against Haku. These fights will be all out," Zabuza said and Naruto laughed at hearing Zabuza call his brother the nickname he gave him when they were children.
"You have a deal. Our team medic will be escorted here by myself tonight so that she can finish healing you," Naruto said and Zabuza let out another sigh.
"So what's the mission you have in mind?" Zabuza asked and Naruto smirked.
"Right. Let's talk about Operation: Hand of God," Naruto said and began explaining his plan.
A door opened and it revealed Kakashi, fully healed and up on his feet again. Naruto walked in and smirked at Kakashi.
"It's done. He's on our side and will aid us in Operation: Hand of God," Naruto told his sensei who eye smiled.
"Good work Naruto. You did build the plan around the gamble he would side with us and looks like you bet your money just right. I'm assuming you'll be taking Hinata to go heal him?" Kakashi asked his student.
"Yes. But there was a catch to all this," Naruto said and Kakashi waved his hand, dismissing it as if it didn't matter.
"As long as he's on our side it's fine. What's the catch?" Kakashi asked.
"He wants you two to have a rematch while Sasuke and I face off against Haku in an all out match. It'll happen once the bridge is near completion and will happen in the large meadow I met Haku in," Naruto told his sensei who took his Icha-Icha book out.
"That's fine. It'll be good to finally have an all out sparring match," Kakashi said as he flipped through the pages of his book.
"Alright. I'm going now. When will the Operation begin?" Naruto asked his sensei.
"Tomorrow night. Tell him to meet us here. Dismissed," Kakashi said and Naruto left the room to begin preparations.
Cool sea breeze kissed Naruto's whiskered face as he overlooked one of the barracks containing some of Gato's forces. Sasuke was overlooking the one on the other side of Gato's compound. Hinata was waiting on standby in case any of them needed back up and was charged with getting the slaves out of there safely while Kakashi, Haku, and Zabuza would act as the main assault force when the signal was set off by the Uchiha brothers.
'Operation: Hand of God starts now boys. Hope you're ready for carnage,' Kakashi's voice said through the ear piece he had given Naruto and Sasuke. Wordlessly they summoned 4 kage bunshins and sent them down to surround the barracks they overlooked.
"Doton: Doryuheki" the clones chanted and 4 earthen walls rose from the ground to encase the barracks so no one could escape. Naruto and Sasuke jumped from their perch and landed on their walls.
"Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu" they both said and sent a massive fireball at the buildings and lit them both on fire. The screams of the mercenaries echoed through the night as a heavy mist descended on the area. Screams and cries of mercy rang out throughout the compound but all were met with the same thing, death. The barracks they had just burned to the ground contained roughly 150 mercenaries each while the remaining 200 were guarding the place. After what seemed like forever the mist finally disappeared.
All throughout the compound lay dead bodies, their blood running the roads red as the assault team stood in the midst of it all. 'All slaves have been escorted to safety. Remaining here to guard them and await further orders,' Hinata's voice said through the ear piece.
'Roger that. Whiskers and Emo Duck, come meet us at the entrance to Gato's mansion. We'll be waiting,' Kakashi told them and they both went to meet up with their sensei with Sasuke grumbling about his code name. Arriving they all silently moved inside the mansion. Wordlessly they split up with the assault team covering both floors of the mansion while the execution team, Naruto and Sasuke, took the basement levels. They found the drug cache and Naruto summoned a few clones to seal all the drugs to be taken back to Konoha to be destroyed.
Eventually reaching the final level of the basement, they came face to face with a giant vault door. Naruto got to work on a seal and placed it on the door and channeled chakra into the seal and the door spun open. Sasuke gasped at the absurd amount of money and jewels locked away in the vault.
"Man this guy is just the definition of greed. Alright Sasuke I hope you have those sealing scrolls I gave you. We're gonna have to use all of our remaining supply to seal all of this away to give to Jiji," Naruto said and Sasuke let out a "Hn" and they both got to work. By the time they were done, Kakashi and Zabuza were dragging a bloodied Gato into the now empty vault. His eyes widened at seeing his riches gone and he starting yelling incoherently before composing himself.
"Zabuza *cough* if you hadn't had betrayed me, I would have. I would have killed you and taken your little daughter and had made her my play-" Gato was cut off by a shuriken embedding itself into his skull courtesy of our favorite blondie. He slumped over dead and Naruto let out a sigh.
"Well good thing he's dead. Now all that's left is to finish the bridge and have that spar with you two. Well till then Zabuza-san, Haku-chan," Naruto said before walking out of the vault with Sasuke in tow.
'Did he just call me Haku-chan?' Haku thought before shaking the thought away. She and Zabuza departed with Kakashi going off to handle his team and the now freed slaves.
Flower petals gently floated through the air as Team 7 arrived, Zabuza and Haku waiting to begin their battle. Hinata had been brought to heal them when it was all said and done. Kakashi and Zabuza stepped forward and looked each other over for a moment before both men extended an arm towrard each other, both grasping the other and shaking firmly.
"May the best man win Zabuza-san," Kakashi said with an eye smile. Zabuza just chuckled darkly before gripping his Kubikiribocho and turned and he and Kakashi went to have their battle elsewhere. Meanwhile the two boys stared down Haku who just smiled.
"Shall we get started then?" she asked them and they got in their taijutsu stances.
She let out a sigh before making a hand sign "So be it," she said.
"Hyoton: Makyo Hyosho" (Ice Release: Demonic Ice Mirrors) she intoned and a large dome of numerous ice mirrors formed around Naruto and Sasuke. Naruto took out his nodachi while Sasuke took out his tanto. It was dead silent before suddenly thousands of water needles came rushing at them. Activating their Sharingan, the brothers started deflecting all of them. They jumped, flipped, and evaded all of them till Naruto lost focus and numerous needles were about to hit him before Sasuke pushed him out of the way. The Uchiha took every last needle.
"*cough* Fuck... you," he said before falling over.
Sasuke heard the sounds of water dripping. Opening his eyes he found himself inside a large sewer with a gigantic gate with a tag on it that said "Seal". Getting up, he looked around but found nothing but the sewer stretching on forever. Suddenly behind the gate, a large blood red eye opened and stared at him, piercing his soul.
"So after all these years, my vessel finally decides to pay me a visit. How sweet of you," the titanic Kyuubi growled out.
(A/N) And so ends another chapter. I think this is my favorite I've written so far. Probably because so much happened and it was so fun to write it all. Anyways hope you all enjoyed the chapter. Leave a review if you'd like. Also I'd like to thank all of the reviewers who have already done so. Thank you so much. But anyways. Till next time.
