Chapter 9: Making the first splash in wave.
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[Justu]
In the outskirts of a small town on the island nation of the land of waves three shadows walked up to a port side house and gazed at the door.
"You sure this is the address mom, that guy back there didn't look like he was the most knowledgable about the place…Or completely in his right mind for that matter." A female voice asked.
"Well, only one way to find out." Another said as she knocked on the door, the inside suddenly became quite as a grave, however being shinobi they knew that someone was most likely going to see who was outside and make sure that it wasn't an enemy, if they were smart.
"Who's out there." A voice asked from the other side of the door.
"Traveling wine salesmen Sasuke, who do you think is out here you moron. Open the damn door before we decide to kick it in." Naruko said with a huff, she was already irritable with the fact they had to work with Duckbutt, pinky and the mutt and she was not in the mood for this.
The door was suddenly was thrown open and Sasuke gazed at the three girls and one boy standing outside the door.
"What they hell are you doing here, this is are mission get lost." He growled angrily.
"We're your back up you idiot, the one's who found out about what Gato is really up to with this place and the closet team that could get here." Naruto said rolling his eyes, shortly after they had reached the Wave a message had returned from the hokage saying they were to provide an A-rank level support mission for team Kakashi, something that made them all sweat drop at with the amount of trouble the team clearly had gotten themselves in.
"We don't need you." Sasuke said again gazing warily at the black haired boy, for the Uchiha something about Tenzo unnerved him. He felt like he was prey to him and if he ever made the boy truly mad he would be made lunch and that pissed him off to no end.
"Yeah we say otherwise." Mito said pushing past him and letting them inside, walking to the kitchen they were greeted with the sight of Sakura eating rice at the table with the bridge building—who they had found out from the mission report was named Tazuna—and the other member of team Kakashi Sai sitting off in a corner and drawing.
"Where's Kakashi?" Kushina asked in an even tone, they hadn't gotten the full details only that the team had run into the demon brother's and then Zabuza Momochi who was defeated thanks in part to Sasuke and Sai helping Kakashi.
"He's upstairs resting after he passed out from chakra exhaustion when he over used his Sharingan during the fight with Zabuza." Sakura told her before resuming her talk with Tazuna.
Kushina nodded and headed upstairs, a shiver passed through the two female Uzumaki twins as they pitied Kakashi for what he was about to face, their mother had been very graphic about what she would do to him when they arrived.
"So you three are the back up, great the only one we can rely on is Sasuke." Sakura said giving a dreamy look to said raven haired boy.
"You know if we weren't on a mission right now Haruno I would seriously consider beating the piss out of you." Naruko growled and had to be restrained by her other two teammates to stop her.
"Calm down Naruko, we'll deal with them later." Naruto said.
"Oh yeah and how are you gonna do that." Sasuke said with a sneer, firmly believing none of them could even touch them.
Naruto turned to him and smirked a very sadistic smirk that made them all shiver in fright except for Naruko and Mito.
"Kakashi isn't up and moving around yet and probably won't be for a while, that means that us and sensei will be in charge of your training and believe me when I say it will not be fun." Naruto said.
Sasuke simply scoffed and turned his head away, sakura gushed a bit about the Uchiha for some reason and Sai remained quiet only seemed to be drawing faster now.
Everyone's thoughts were interrupted when they heard the sound of a yell, a crash, and a very unmanly scream come from the next floor up.
"Seems mom has already begun Kakashi's half of the punishment, I imagine after she's done she will be down here to shove the three of your's nose to the grindstone till its nothing but dust." Mito said simply as she sat down.
Tazuna and Tatsumi watched the group with a mix of confusion and slight humor, say what you will about shinobi but, at least they knew how to get a few laughs in during a tense situation.
"So you three new brats think you'll be any better then these three, personally you look even weaker then pinky over there." Tazuna said baiting them a bit to see how they reacted.
The three looked over at him and smirked.
"Honestly sir that's not really saying much since Sakura isn't really the strongest of people out there by any stretch of the imagination." Mito said earning a yell and an attempt to punch Mito from said pink haired girl, sadly that did not happen as she was flipped over Mito's shoulder onto the cold ground with a thud.
"Don't worry about anything Tazuna, we can handle whatever kind of trouble comes are we and keep you safe." Naruko finished, Tazuna smirked, he was beginning to like these little punks.
Three hours later after Kushina had finished ripping Kakashi a new one she had her team and team seven out in the forest to begin training.
"All right, because I know how lazy Kakashi is and I made him tell me what you have learned so far—and I'm whole appalled at the lack luster training—were going to be starting you out on the first chakra control exercise today, climbing trees." Kushina said putting to the trees behind her.
"What's the point in that, this is just a waste of time when we should be learning new Jutsu." Sasuke said scoffing.
"Oh is that so sasuke, tell me are you this teams sensei at the moment, no? Then shut up before I decide to find a creative way to whip your ass into shape that may involve Tenzo's dragons attempting to eat you." She said, her hair was beginning to go wild like it always did when she was pissed off.
Sasuke tried to act unfazed but for the most part was utterly scared.
"Now then as I was saying, allow me to demonstrate why this will help you." Kushina said, applying chakra to her foot she walked over to the tree and walked up it much to the amazement of team seven and amusement of her own team.
"By applying a steady stream of chakra to your feet you can stick are surfaces." She said landing and throwing them kunai." Get as far up the tree as you possibly can then mark the spot, try and beat your mark each time." She told them and made them get started then turned to her own team.
"Now since the three of you are well beyond these rookies we're going to be doing something a little more advanced. You all already know water walking, head to the water behind the house and spar for as long as you can standing on top, weapons and Jutsu are allowed but do not use any jutsu above C-rank." Kushina told them, the three nodded and headed to the ocean.
Five minutes later the sounds of metal hitting metal were heard as the three sparred with each other, Naruko and Mito teaming up with Kunai to try and defeat Tenzo who had his sword drawn.
"So, we know already that Zabuza is alive with an ally and recovering at this very moment. I think we need to take some time and make a plan to defeat him when he comes after Tazuna's head again." Naruto said parrying their strikes with his sword.
"You're right, personally the smart thing would be for you to engage him head on while we support you with long range Jutsu." Mito said ducking a swing.
"Me? How did you come to an idea like that?" Naruto asked pressing the advantage he had earned and kept coming at them with his sword.
"Well, think about it. Out of all of us you and mom are the only one's who can fight the best with a sword, if mom ends up engaging him with Kakashi then well just help protect the bridge builder and take out zabuza's partner. But, on the off chance he goes for someone else then you are the only one who can fight him on equal terms with sword play." Naruko said making a shadow clone and sending it after him.
"Normally I would say that's a good idea, the problem is that Zabuza has so much more training then me it will be nearly impossible to match his level of skill with my own." Naruto pointed out.
"Hence why the two of us are backing you up, that way we can keep him off balance." Naruko said.
Playing the plan over in his mind, Naruto thought about what exactly he would be dealing with if this place came to light and they actually did need him to fight Zabuza. His mother had shown him the profiles of the various seven swordsmen and truly the only one that unnerved him more then Zabuza was Kisame Hoshigaki and his sword Samehada, if ever a beast it was that man. Still thought, with the right amount of luck and back up he figured he could hold Zabuza for a time.
"All right, only because I can't come up with anything better then this crazy plan we will do it." He said with a sigh as they continued to fight, he was already starting to feel drained from this exercise. Yes, he did have Uzumaki level reserves and his dragons gave him a boost as well but, they had been fighting already for twenty minutes straight.
Taking a small break from the fight but staying on the water they watched as team Kakashi could barely make any form of effort on the tree. Well, that wasn't true, in truth only Sasuke was failing the exercise over and over and didn't want to listen to either Sai, Sakura or Kushina and kept blowing them off.
"You know I don't know whether I should hate that mom has to put up with crap like that or be luck she is handling it far better then either of us could ever do." Mito said watching the scene, they could tell by the way their mother was twitching that she was very close to strangling her best friends son with her bare hands.
"She is definitely a better person then either you or me." Naruko said chuckling.
"No, she's not, look." Naruto said making them look back, Kushina had finally snapped and was swinging the Uchiha around by his ankles with her chakra chains after he had insulted her badly, Sakura looked torn at yelling to defend her sasuke and not making their sensei mad…Sai was just drawing without a care in the world.
"I take back everything I just said." Mito said hanging her head in defeat making the other two laugh.
"Come on, we best get back to training before she catches us and does that to us." Naruto said getting back in his stance, the other two copied him and the clash resumed.
Later in the evening Naruto had accompanied Tatsumi was she went out into the village to pick up a few things to make dinner with, seeing the state of the village, the children begging on the streets, and the low stock of food made the two shinobi's blood boil in anger.
"Can't believe the greed of one man can actually do something this hellish." Naruko said growling as she thought over how she would kill Gato.
"It's sad and pathetic truly, then again you travel enough you see it enough to realize that some people are just the lowest of the low." Naruto said back to her.
Stopping outside a small store they waited outside as Tatsumi did her shopping and was ready to leave, as they stood there they noticed a few unsavory looking bandits smirking and glancing in their direction.
"So, what to make a bet fat ass and his merry band of morons over there come over and try to rob us." Naruto asked watching them out of the corner of his eye.
"Oh please, my godmother may be the legendary sucker but even I'm not stupid enough to take a bet as blatantly one sided as that." Naruko said scoffing at the thought of trying.
Naruto chuckled and kept an eye on them still, suer enough not five minutes later the large group walked over.
"All right kiddies, well make this simply. Drop every thing the two of you have and leave, otherwise well be forced to kill you boy and take you girl to gato." The leader said expecting them to comply and do as told.
"I'm sorry could you please repeat that, I'm afraid neither of us speak ass." Naruto said earning a tick mark form the man.
"Listen you little punk, we're some of Gatos men and that means we make the law in this town. Now hand over you stuff or die." He said drawing a sword, the others behind him reached for weapons as well.
"You seriously expect to fight us with that cheap toy." Naruto said insulted this guy would even try that, he wasn't a master swordsmen by any stretch of the imagination but, he was at least good enough to see bandits trying to mug him with a sword disrespectful.
"Yeah you little snot, what you gonna do about it." The man said arrogantly, five-seconds later he was flat on the ground holding his stomach, his sword was in Naruto's hand as he inspected it.
"This is a nice sword." He muttered and grabbed a sealing scroll to store it away, the other bandits—having been shocked that their leader had been taken out by one punch—shook off their stutter and charged to kill Naruto only to be met by a fury of strikes from Naruko.
"Tenzo, focus on the sword later, we have a lot more pressing issues to deal with like these clowns." Naruko said knocking one out while another she had locked in a choke hold with one arm.
"All right, all right kill joy much you know." Naruto said sealing the sword away and joined her in the fray, he didn't bother to draw his blade as he felt it would be wasted against these guys. Instead he brought them down with deadly accurate punch in his dragon fist stance.
The fight with the whole of the goon squad took a laughable two minutes with them working together, soon all them men were down and out on the ground while the two shinobi dusted themselves off from the little scuffle.
"Well, that was really disappointing, I was hoping to get something of a work out from that but, it felt more like a school yard brawl then a serious fight." Naruko said.
"Yeah I know what you mean, seriously this town is being held hostage by a four foot midget and these guys? I'm not that impressed. Fact if Gato probably didn't hire any missing win then the villagers could have probably taken this whole place back by now." Naruto said returning to his spot leaning against the wall.
A few minutes later Tatsumi walked out and gasped when she saw the mess currently laying in the road.
"What happened out here." She asked looking at the two kids who were guarding her for an answer on that.
"Oh nothing much, couple of guys thought it would be a wise move to try and rob us but we showed them that it was not in their best interest to try something like that on people who aren't scared of them." Naruko said smirking a bit cocky.
"Don't get full of yourself Naruko, that was the first lesson sensei taught us." Naruto told her, seeing that grin on her face.
"What I don't see anything wrong with being a bit pleased with yourself when you did as good of a job as the two of us did." Naruko said taking a side of Tatsumi and began to lead her back to the house.
"While I don't disagree normally this time I have to, we best take this situation seriously still otherwise we could end up in more trouble then we bargained for." Naruto told her giving her a serious glare.
"Oh relax Tenzo, what could possibly come after us?" Naruko asked him smiling hugely.
Naruto let the subject drop off for the moment but, he couldn't quite shake the feeling of nervousness that had been building since they had ended the fight with the group of thugs back at the small market. He shook it off and sighed, focusing back on the road as they kept an eye out for more trouble in the form of bandits.
Neither noticed the person in the white mask standing on top of the market they had just let, watching them like a hawk to learn everything they could about them and see if they were a threat.
"So your sure of this, they did call in reinforcements." A gruff voice said, inside a darkened room laying on a large bed was the 'Demon of the Bloody Mist' himself, Zabuza Momochi. After his close encounter with Kakashi of the Sharingan and subsequently being put in a false death state he was still recovering with the help of his partner.
"Yes, Zabuza, the two of them fought on a much higher level then any of the genin you encountered in the woods, their looks were also different from the one's I can see. One of them is also a swordsmen from what I can tell as he looked insulted when one of the bandits attempted to attack him with one." Haku said sitting next to her master mixing a new batch of medicine to help him heal.
"Your right about that, most adept swordsmen would find it a great insult to their skill to be attacked, brat must have some training then from a decent swordsmen if thats the case." Zabuza said, Haku raised the medicine to his lips and had him take it only for him to hack it up in a coughing fit.
"Ahh what the hell Haku, this stuff taste like liquified training shorts and skunk piss." Zabuza said trying to rid the taste from his mouth.
"I apologize Zabuza, the medicine will help you hell faster but it won't taste the best." Haku said making him take more.
"Anyway's back to the new brats, whoever their sensei is must be pretty strong to be taking a fresh batch of genin on a most likely A-rank support mission. What did the two look like?" Zabuza asked her.
"The first was a male about 5'3, 5'4. Black hair with blond tips, a mix of amber and blue eyes, dressed in mostly black and red clothes with the symbol of a dragon on it." Haku said.
"Coupled with the fact the boy has had formal sword training and we may be looking at the rumored son of the great 'Red Dragon Empress of Konoha' Mira Kuroitori, that could prove a problem in the long run. And the other?" Zabuza asked thinking.
"Female, roughly 5'4, shoulder length blond hair tied in twin tails, blue eyes and three whisker marks on her cheek, wore a black and orange jumpsuit." Haku said.
"Now that one has to be one of the two 'Princess of Konoha,' the daughters of Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki. If one is here then i'll bet are final genin is her twin and their sensei is possibly their mother." Zabuza said cursing slightly.
"Is that bad?" Haku asked confused, Zabuza rarely seemed tense about hearing news like that.
"Kushina Uzumaki is considered a legendary swordsmen along with Mira Kuroitori, the women was known as ' Crimson Princess' during the third shinobi war. She defeated all the previous Seven Swordsmen of the Mist and has a serious axe to grind against Kiri for playing a part in the destruction of Uzushiogakure." Zabuza said, Haku knew the stories behind that historic battle so she didn't need the details. If this women was that good then they were in trouble.
"So as it stands we have some heavy opposition facing us if we want to get this job done, assuming Gato doesn't try to screw us over. This may not even be worth the amount he is paying us if we have to deal with this level of opponents. But, a jobs a job, guess well just have to see how things play out after I get healed." Zabuza said.
Dinner at Tazuna's house was quiet that evening, most of team seven was exhausted from Kushina's training regimen for the day and were just glad to finally sit down. Team Eleven seemed fine only because they had grown use to the intense work outs from the time they had team training and all the home training they received from their respected families.
"All right, Kakashi should be able to return to training you tomorrow, BUT." Kushina said halting the near cheers from Sakura." I told him to keep the same level of intensity as you dealt with today, we're fighting an A-rank Missing Nin so I expect all of you to be putting your best effort into getting stronger while we have the time to do it." Kushina said to them.
"Tenzo, Naruko you two will be in charge of guarding Tazuna tomorrow while myself and Mito keep an eye on things here. Tenzo if you can I would appreciate it if you could summon a water dragon to help give us some cover from the sea if they try anything." Kushina then said to her team.
"I'll do my best sensei and see if I can call in a favor or two." Naruto said nodding.
Dinner soon finished afterwards and everyone retired to bed, knowing just as the day before things would be long tomorrow and the days to come until this mission was finished.
Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, it's me Tenzo.
So here we are people, the wave arc has officially begun and now its time for some fun. Now like I said previously, I don't plan on doing a traditional wave arc in fact this will have a lot of surprises and original content from me.
Now to all of you wondering i'm going to clear this up, Haku is a GIRL in my story. No if's, and's, or but's about it. No, we will not be seeing any harem action between her and Naruto although she will have a romance life with one of the genin from this chapter.
Anyway that's all for now, like, review and all that. PEACE.
