I DO NOT OWN NARUTO!
Naruto woke up and entered the room. He was greeted by everyone eating breakfest. Tazuna looked at the blond. He for the first time noticed the change in the boy's eyes.
"Naruto you seem different."
"After facing the chunin I realized that me goofing around instead of training could get me killed so I am no longer going to kid around instead I must prepare." Tazuna nodded and returned to his breakfast. Anko looked at the blond then to Kurenai.
Kurenai nodded. "Naruto you and Hinata will escort Tazuna today. Anko and I are going to patrol the beaches and Kiba will stay with Tsunami and Inari. Naruto nodded then returned to his room. After a few minutes he returned with his Katana strapped across his back and Kitamaru by his side. He looked at Hinata who blushed intensly and stood up. She placed her bowl in the sink as Tazuna finished off his coffee. Then he got up and exited the house with the two genin. When they arrived at the bridge Tazuna went to begin work with his labor force and Naruto sat down against Kitamaru who quickly fell asleep. He looked at Hinata who seemed to stand ramrod straight.
"Hinata-chan? Would you like to sit?" Hinata blushed and then nodded once. She sat down and was surprised at the fox. It was like sitting against a pillow. After she settled Naruto turned to her.
"So Hinata tell me about yourself. We never really talk and I didn't really associate with people in the academy."
"O-oh I d-don't k-k-know wh-where to sta-start."
"Hmm how about your dream."
"O-oh I…I w-want to r-re-remove th-the bra-branch seal." Naruto however decided to see about the stutter.
"Hinata are you nervous?"
"Yes."
"Don't be I will protect you from harm." This only served to make the raven haired girl even more nervous.
"Na-Naruto-kun I sens-sense n-n-ninja." As soon as the words left her mouth the whistle of kunai were heard. Then there was a sound of knives hitting flesh. Then the sound of a clone dispelling. Hinata saw two ninja. One with a sword then other with a a mask obscuring their face. Naruto became serious instantly and turned to Hinata.
"Hinata go and get Kiba and Kurenai and Anko. I will hold them here. RUN NOW!" Hinata turned to him.
"Naruto-kun I will handle the second my Byakugan will help use a shadow clone to get reinforcements." Naruto looked in shock at the loss of her stutter and the sudden confidence. He nodded then sent 3 bunshins to get reinforcements.
Zabuza strolled forward slowly taking his time and dragging his sword behind him. He didn't waste his chakra with a mist cover since the blond could easily just use a wind jutsu. When he finally stopped he watched 3 clones run in two directions and heeded it no mind. He would leave the blond alive long enough to see reinforcements. He then laughed as charged.
Naruto barely dodged a vertical slash. He tried to draw his katana and succeeded. After he blocked a horitzontal slash he felt a bone jarring kick to his sternum. He flew back and crashed into a pile of lumber. He stood back up and collapsed to his knees. He coughed up blood and forced himself up. Suddenly two memories filled his head. Kiba running towards the bridge and Anko and Kurenai running as well. Naruto looked over to Hinata and saw she was in a massive dome. He then turned to face his opponent and got ready to try to hold out.
Hinata watched her opponent make a dome of Ice then disappear into a mirror. She activated her Byakugan and scanned the area. She saw her opponent in a mirror and she launched a kunai. The kunai cracked the mirror but it was repaired almost instantaneous. She began to think of a strategy when she heard the sound of a very angry dog and Kiba. Then she heard the famous jutsu and Kiba appeared in the dome with her followed by Akamaru.
Naruto and Kitamaru just launched a combined attack at Zabuza and were blocked by his sword. Zabuza went to slash at Kitamaru when Naruto blocked the blade. Kitamaru then launched at the enemy ninja and sunk his teeth into the enemy ninja's throat only to have him pop and turn into a puddle. Naruto bent his knees slightly before launching forward but not before Zabuza's sword severed his Achilles tendon in his right foot. Naruto barely managed to pull his foot out of the attack before it was amputated by the sword. He looked down and realized he couldn't fight his opponent. Then a voice in his head took over.
"Kit Let me take over." Naruto reluctantly agreed. He felt a massive power rush just as the two jounin arrived.
Kurenai and Anko arrived at the bridge and immediately were washed over in a massive wave of chakra. They felt despair and sadness as they drew closer to Naruto. They watched him charge at the enemy swordsmen and run through handsigns.
"Fuuton: Bureidosutomu(1)"
The blond exhaled a massive burrage of wind blades and to Anko and Kurenai horror they cut through Zabuza's arms and legs. The enemy collapsed to the ground. They ran forward and Kurenai put the man in a genjutsu as well as Naruto. Anko then killed Zabuza with a kunai. Then the body collapsed into water. Kurenai released Naruto from the genjutsu and watched as the blond reverted back to his human form. He grabbed his katana and charged at the newly appeared Zabuza. However he slashed.
Hinata turned to Kiba and Akamaru, All three were covered in senbon and Hinata had an idea. She was tracking the enemy ninja.
"Kiba when I say go use fang over fan where I point to." He nodded. Hinata watched as the enemy shinobi pause and then lean out to throw his snebon.
"GO!" Hinata pointed at the mirror and Kiba and Akamaru used the justu and caught the enemy shinboi. Due to Haku's lost of concentration the jutsu failed. Hinata ran forward and sealed all of his tenketsu before slamming a flat palm into the boy's chakra coil thus ending his life. Then both Kiba and Hinata collapsed from chakra exhaustion.
Naruto saw Zabuza dodge his slash then stab the blond in the stomach. Naruto gasped in pain then shock as he felt first a massive amount of pain then nothing. He looked down at the sword before collapsing forward with Anko and Kurenai screaming.
The two jounin saw their blond genin fall. When he hit the ground his body was enveloped in red chakra again but now it was defined and there where two tails. Then Naruto stood up and ripped the sword out of his chest. He laughed at the sword then drew his own. HE crossed them and forced his chakra into it and then slashed them apart. A red x of wind blades charged at the mist ninja. When he jumped to avoid it he felt 4 snake bits that pulled him back into the path of the attack then he felt massive pain then nothing,
Anko and Kurenai watched as the mist swordsmen fell. Naruto lost his red chakra and fell forward. When Anko and Kurenai got there they saw him take a soldier pill then stand up. He turned to them. "I have a feeling we will meet the employer soon."
Then they heard a laugh. When they turned they saw a man they assumed was the employer.
"I thank you all for killing Zabuza for me. Now I just have to kill the bridge builder myself since Zabuza failed." He turned to his hench men who charged. Kurenai however placed them all in a genjutsu that ade them commit sucide and then Anko killed the leader.
After another week waiting for Tazuna to finish the bridge the Konoha team finally began the journey home. Anko and Naruto were in the back while Kiba and Hinata where talking and Hinata kept blushing.
Kurenai decided to confront the blond about the kiss.
"Naruto we need to talk about what happened in Tazuna's"
"Kurenai-sensei I know it was a mistake I want it to not be but I admit it was." Kurenai nodded before pulling him close.
"Naruto until you make chunin we can't tell people we are in a relationship. But if you are interested in me we can hide it until your promotion."
"Sensei you read my mind."
Wind Style: Blade Storm (1)
