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Bold – Techniques, Demons/Summons, and/or title
Disclaimer: I don't Naruto Uzumaki or Naruto. -inserts funny disclaimer-
The one-eyed man – technically – could have thought many reasons why taking the mission with his team would be definitely not a good idea..
It cut into his reading...
...He rather see Team 7 suffer with their training and regular D-rank missions...
...He said they were gonna suffer D-rank missions for a month and he wanted that...
...He didn't want to appease Sasuke Uchiha...
...He didn't even think they were ready...
...It cut into his reading.
He simply said "No" to the elder Hokage, told him that Team 7 didn't deserve it and promptly told him to go send even more D-rank missions for his team.
So, why did he say "Yes" for himself to go?
Simple – he wanted some fun. He could use this as an excuse to read more. He could get a break from the troublesome genin he had. He could teach Naruto more wind-related techniques, hell, even help out Yuuhi-san's other students with whatever they needed. It sounded just like the perfect semi-vacation.
However a slight pout came to the gray haired man, who was formerly engrossed in his newer issue of his favorite Icha Icha series
But then, who would teach his cute little genin and make them suffer under their heel?
No one was quite available at the moment. Nobody who could even stand three brats that needed some discipline.
Discipline...
Gai?
Hmm... the flamboyant man would push them to insane heights beyond he could do. He knew he himself was brutal, but Gai upped the insanity by tenfold. He seen how he trained one of his students. He actually seen the pair run laps on their hands for hours. A little Gai, just to be exact. Kakashi feared for the young youth's time as a jounin teacher and his genin, as much as he feared Gai now.
The only man Kakashi feared training with. Perfect. Perfect for Team 7.
And what of their chakra control exercises? Yuuhi-san did tell him that her team already knew the Tree and Water Walking Exercise. Oh no! And apparently so did Asuma's team too when he seen him the other day as well. He couldn't let his Genin fall behind now!
...Then again, that wouldn't be the brutaltype of training he was looking for now, huh?
Oh, hehehe, ideas came up.
What if he did let them do the exercises, but with Gai? Gai may center around taijutsu as a whole but he did know how to do chakra control exercises, for they had been the basics of every ninja's knowledge. But knowing Gai, he knew it would be painstakingly good for his cute little genin.
Perfect thinking as always, he prided himself.
Sasuke grunted, "So you're skipping out on our training again?" He shook his head in disgust. "Oh, whatever did we do now?"
"Yeah, why now do you have a mission?" Kiba groaned as well, wondering what they did now to earn punishment for him not training them. He was good! Kiba made sure he didn't fight with Sasuke. He made sure he blew off Sakura less. Hell, he even stopped chase cats anymore! That was one of his favorite activities, dammit, so what was the big deal?
Sakura was the only quietest on the team. She just figured looking for response of his answer fared much better than jumping into conclusions like Sasuke-kun and Kiba-baka, and trusting any fearful thoughts.
"Hokage's orders, kids. Nothing against y'all. I gotta go back up a team on their mission." Kakashi said cheerfully, sparing Sasuke the immediate jealously if he knew Naruto's team was on a mission beyond a D-rank one. He however did feel a little spite from Sasuke when he said "backing up someone on a mission". The boy seriously needed to calm down. "Be gone for a few days."
"Typical. Just like you to go out your way to not train us." Sasuke's spiteful comment came back. Kakashi wasn't too fazed by it.
Kakashi grinned at them, "No, I'm not. I didn't neglect you now. Be glad the person I got for you in my absence has actually a few days off from his students."
"Who?"
"I don't think you ever heard of Maito Gai. Eh?" Their blank stares had been his answer. "That's okay. You'll find out soon enough!" He cheerfully said, grinned evilly under his mask.
"One student of his always trains with him, so I'm thinking you'll have another sparring partner to help you out. And this one possibly is the ultimate one." He added with an "eye smile".
"What makes him so special?" Kiba asked, scoffing at Kakashi's choice of words.
"Let's just say his determination is 'rock solid'." Kakashi smiled.
Team 7 sweatdropped at Kakashi's "joke".
"Well, anyway, I'm off now. The reason why I got you guys here early is because... well, this is Gai's training time. Have fun with him now. Tell me all about the stories when I get back." Kakashi grinned, "Later!"
Kakashi disappeared in a plume of smoke.
Kiba snorted, "Well, that's cool, I guess. We still get training in the end."
"Yeah, but who's Gai?" Sasuke said back.
"That will be, my fair youths!" A loud voice came behind them.
As they turned around, their eyes immediately bugged out. A man in a green jumpsuit, a jonin flak jacket, thick eyebrows and a bowl haircut man smiled down at them. "I am Maito Gai! Konoha's Sublime Green Beast Of Prey! I am here to take over your youthful growth! The hip Kakashi will not be here to see you grow more! But I promise to bring your youth out incredibly for him to see! And to help me out, my most youthful student here, Rock Lee! Will Help! Me! Out!" Gai said, posing flamboyantly at the last of the words.
Out the trees came another one of them.
Bowl haircut, green jumpsuit, posing flamboyantly, good god, who is that?
"Rock Lee, Konoha's Sublime Green Beast Of Gales will be here to help Team 7 with-" Rock Lee loudly said but then stopped shortly after his boast.
His "bug" eyes reached Sakura's emerald green eyes, who took a step back, recoiling in disgust.
In a green flash, Lee appeared at her feet. "Hello, fair maiden! I am Rock Lee, Konoha's Sublime Green Beast Of Gales! What is your name?"
"Um.. Sakura H-Haruno?" Sakura nervously said. She really didn't know what to say.
"Sakura-san! Your beauty is simply sublime! Join me in hands and let me take you out on a date!" Lee said, smiling and posing with his thumb up to her in his self-proclaimed "Nice Guy" pose.
Her reaction was a mixture of a blush and a wan look in her face. "A d-date? Wi-with you? Waah! Help me, Sasuke-kun." Sakura wailed, grabbing onto Sasuke's shirt much to his discomfort, hoping for her crush to save her.
"Hm." Said boy grunting. This did nothing to get Lee from Sakura's face.
"'S-Sasuke-kun?'" Lee asked, half heartbroken that Sakura did not except his offer. And then his eyes reached the boy next to his fair maiden Sakura-san! A youthful flame entered his eyes! "Sasuke Uchiha! I should have known my fair maiden is struck by your genius. You and your handsome, hip ways! But be warned! I am a genius of hard work! I will fight for Sakura-san's love!"
"Wha-?" Sasuke tried but felt a kick outside this world. Sasuke's immediate reaction to Lee was to fly back 10 feet from his spot.
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura gasped in horror as Sasuke coiled in the air.
The quieter Kiba looked in shock too. "Whoa."
Sasuke landed on his back, looking in shock, obviously still wondering if the green freak actually kicked and then his anger coming back to the surface again, realizing he had a fat lip.
Lee smiled happily at his work but then crumpled in pain, as Gai rocked his head back and forth with a powerful fist. "Lee! You fool! How dare you hit your opponent when he wasn't ready! Show some respect!"
"Ouch! I'm sorry, Gai-sensei. But I had gotten too excited!"
"That is understandable! But you shall be punished for your actions!"
"I am ready for my punishment, Gai-sensei!" Lee proclaimed loudly, not even worried about his punishment.
"You must run seven laps around Konoha on your hands while clapping with your feet!"
"S-Seven laps? All he did was kick the crap out of Sasuke. Damn!" Kiba said, his eyes bugging out by the insanity of this.
"Yes Gai-sensei, I agree with the Inuzuka!" Kiba sighed. "Instead, I am needed to do fifteen laps on my hands while clapping with my feet!"
"Of course! How could I myself be a fool? Lee, fifteen laps is perfect! Go now, my student! Hurry and complete your task by noon, or you will do 1,000 push ups with one hand!"
"Yosh! Thank you for such a reward Gai-sensei!" Lee immediately did a handstand and clapped his feet. "Yes! I will do this before noon, this I swear!" Lee then sped away.
The three members of Team 7 looked in complete shock and horror at this. How the fuck did he-? Why did he-? UGH! What the hell were they dealing with?
Gai posed a "nice guy" pose to them. "I am sorry for that, Sasuke Uchiha! My student gets a little riled up! Soon, he will properly challenge you for your fair maiden's hand!"
"What... what the fuck?" Kiba said out loud, seriously not knowing what the fuck was going on.
"And sorry for my stupidity! To give Lee seven laps! Ha! What foolishness! And for my foolishness, I will tie my hands behind my back and fight with only my feet!"
"Are you fucking serious?" Kiba shouted.
Gai had already tied his hands up. Gai did smile at them, "Come at everything you have, my youth!"
Seriously, who was this guy? What the hell were they getting into?
Kakashi definitely is an evil bastard. Evil indeed.
Stop The Future
Chapter 7 – Ride The Waves, Part 2
"Hey everybody!" Kakashi smiled, as Team 8 finally burned out their fire from last night and finally put down their tents.
"Kakashi-sensei? You're our backup?" Naruto asked, confused. Then he looked behind him, even more confused. "Where's the rest of your team?"
"I am it." Kakashi grinned. "I get a little break from the norm."
"But... who's left to look after your team?"
"Why, my personal friend, Maito Gai!" Kakashi said cheerfully, as he looked at his book again.
'Gai?' Naruto sweatdropped. 'Can't say I am sympathetic of Team 7 now.'
Wasn't it weird that "The Green Beast Of Prey" didn't stop training even until his own untimely death?
Somebody like Gai could beat the crap out of you just using his own feet, let alone his hands. Get him with a pair of nunchaku and... it was over.
Naruto should know. He trained with a "Nice" Guy before. A lovable, "Nice" Gai was bad already... but a "Serious" Gai was not fun to play around with. Not at all. He practically brutalized ninjas of The Uchiha Armada with Rock Lee until he died by Madara's own hands.
He also learned that a "Serious" Lee was even more dangerous too. The man never skipped out on training Lee, teaching him everything from the Morning Peacock Technique, to the Daytime Tiger Technique. Lee's speed, brutal strength, thirst for revenge and will in opening seven of the Eight Gates easily trumped the arrogance of the Uchiha. Sasuke and Madara was almost nothing to Lee, and Madara could have been pulp if he didn't sync with "his" Tailed Beasts to beat Lee to the ground.
A fitting death for the both of them, side by side, in battle and entombed in flames by the both of the Uchiha.
Naruto knew something never changed. Though, perhaps he could actually see "Serious" Lee and "Serious" Gai in battle against Madara once again with different results?
Kurenai sighed, 'Well, not a chunnin team to back us up, but Kakashi is the next best thing.'
Kurenai nodded at the lazy man, 'And he could take over Naruto and Shino's training and teach them a few moves whenever we get time to settle down.'
"Alright, we dispatched of the Demon Brothers and we're definitely gonna need help if there is jounin type ninjas out there hired by Gatou."
"The fact that we're going to up against a multi-millionaire is a little scary itself," Kakashi's eyebrow quirked, and he stared at the old man walking in front of them.
"Well, at least with two jounin, I am sure we can take em on. Shino is right – missing ninjas do not come inexpensive."
"That they don't," Kakashi nodded. "Want me to help them out with Naruto's wind-related techniques? I doubt you know any since you specialize in genjutsu. Maybe I even could help the others with finding theirs."
"Actually, I already did. Hinata's affinity is water, and Shino is earth." Kurenai smiled. "I got Hinata. I do have some water moves in my arsenal."
"Oh?" Kakashi was generally surprised. Although he knew Yuuhi-san specialize in genjutsu mainly, other intel on her skills weren't very much spread around. "Well, that makes it easier. Alright. I'll help out Naruto and Shino with some techniques. Start off easy. Hell, might even give some scrolls to your team."
She smiled thankfully at Kakashi's willingness but furthermore frowned at the mentioned of the word 'team', "How is your own team going?"
Kakashi sighed, "Honestly? They still need to work on teamwork, but they are progressing. They aren't fighting so much amongst themselves, though I do sense a small rivalry start to build between Kiba and Sasuke. That might do Sasuke some good though. Rivalry and healthy team interaction. Before this mission happened to change with you guys, I was going to teach them chakra control."
Kurenai sighed, feeling more tired than usual, "So more holding back?"
"No." Kakashi grinned, a little too evil for her taste. "They aren't being neglected. They'll be training with Gai for the next few days."
"Guh-Gai?" Kurenai said out loud. She knew her students looked back in confusion, wondering what was the trouble. "What the hell? Gai, Kakashi? Are you trying to kill them?"
Kakashi held his hands up in defense. "Haha, no... not today." Kurenai did not find his joke as hilarious as him. He coughed awkwardly "I did have reasons. I woulda sent Ebisu to help them with chakra control and some small pointers in taijutsu, but what's better than Gai who'll push them harder than that?" Kakashi shrugged.
"But what about Gai's team, Kakashi? Isn't that unfair for them?" Kurenai reasoned, her frown almost making her ugly to look at. Almost, Kakashi remarked.
"Now, I said to Gai he could look after my team until he had to tend to his team for a few days, hell, even have them do a sparring match up with Team Gai while you're at it."
"You think that's wise after the last one Team 7 had?" Kurenai's eyes narrowed in that memory.
"I told my team to behave or they'll be dire consequences. I'm just begging that they do." The gray haired man grinned like a piranha. "In any case, I see no harm in it. Sakura does need more help in taijutsu."
"So Sakura is starting to grow too, huh?" Kurenai smiled. Always nice to hear a kunoichi strive to get better. Most these days were too bogged down by boys, glamor and whatnot like a high schooler.
"Yes she is." Kakashi nodded. "In our training, she has even showed more determination to continue more than Kiba and Sasuke. All I need to get her to do is get her from drooling over Sasuke so much."
"One thing at a time, Kakashi."
Minutes later, the jounin decidedly stuck with comfortable silence instead of talking about trivial things like teams and the newest brand of bombshell sake they had on the market. Their silence was met by the only comforting sounds of their shuffling and marching on the main road of the forest heading into the Land Of Waves.
The trip through the forest was smooth, with no signs of ninja or even bandit activity. Tazuna walked with Hinata now in back of him, Kakashi in back of her, Shino and Naruto to the sides of him and Kurenai in front of him, leading everyone.
Naruto then suddenly stopped and looked directly at a bush.
"Kurenai-sensei. I hear something." Naruto said seriously.
"What is it, Naruto?"
"Hmm, don't know." Naruto squinted his eyes.
"You sense anything?" Kurenai said back.
"I think so. Lemme check. Dokidoki Kanchi no Jutsu!" Naruto said, whispering the last part as best as he could.
'Heartbeat Sensor Technique, huh?' Kakashi wondered. 'Must be his tracking technique.'
A small pulse emitted from the blond boy, Kakashi noted. The pulse was then sent to the grassy area in front of Naruto. Naruto however did not look too pleased.
"Hmm, I'm not getting feedback from it." Naruto frowned.
"Must not being anything then." Kurenai concluded, lowering her kunai but not letting her guard down.
Then a rustle was heard from the area again. In nothing short of a twitch, Naruto expertly sent a kunai, and heard a slick as the kunai went through cleanly into the animal.
Naruto went to the bush and stiffly moved for the others to see.
A white rabbit laid there, dead now, the kunai stuck in it's the abdomen.
Naruto looked sheepish but so much remorseful.
"Hehe, sorry sensei, thought I sensed something."
"Very good. You are a slave to your own impulses." Shino deadpanned. His sarcasm was light salting in Naruto's open wounds. Naruto had the decency to blush.
Hinata looked also surprised at Naruto's impulsive actions. 'N-Naruto-kun...'
Kurenai sighed as Naruto practically disemboweled the Snow Rabbit just then. Poor thing – never even seen it coming, its white fur was dampened by its own red blood.
...
Wait, white fur?
White fur? A Snow Rabbit's fur was brown in the spring, not white. Snow Rabbits who are with white fur are usually domesticated, not wild. This was a forest. There weren't houses miles from here.
Kakashi seemed to be sharing the same thoughts and then widened, looking in back of him. Something came at them with high speed, and it wasn't a kunai.
"Everybody duck now!"
Shino and Naruto pulled Tazuna down fast as they went down and the other three hit the deck fast.
The massive sword lodged itself into the bark of two trees evenly and cleanly. In a flash, Team 8 and the two jounins looked at beheld a tall, muscular standing on top of the horse-slaying sword above them.
"Ah, my intel didn't say Kakashi Hatake, the Legendary Copy Ninja himself, would be on this mission."
"Zabuza Momochi, here?" Kakashi wondered out loud, his eyes widening.
"Oh, nice that you know of me. Then I don't need to introduce myself." The gray former Seven Ninja Swordsman Of The Mist said, with his signature Decapitating Carving Knife sword strapped confidently to his back.
Kurenai herself narrowed her eyes. "Team 8, cover Tazuna."
Shino and Naruto came back to the sides of the fearful Tazuna, while Hinata was at his back, Byakugan on to cover her front and back.
"With you on this mission, things got a lot more complicated." Kurenai said.
"Oh? Didn't expect me, dear?" Zabuza mocked. "Two jounin ninjas on this mission to bring back the bridge builder? No wonder the Demon Brothers were defeated. Konoha takes no chances." Zabuza then looked at the ninja protecting Tazuna and grinned, "And what's this? Three cute little genin? And one of them seems to have the Byakugan? This seems to be my lucky day."
"You're not gonna to get any far from here." Kakashi revealed his red eye, the Sharingan, staring back at Zabuza. "I promise you that."
Zabuza chuckled, "Well, glad I decided to bring Ren with me then if I have to deal with two jounins, eh?"
Said person jumped down from her spot and smiled cheerfully, "Heya! How y'all doing?"
Naruto's eyes widened out. 'Who in the hell is that?'
A girl no older than 14, maybe 15 years old, smiled at the three kids in front of her. Her black long glossy hair was tightly tied in a long ponytail and she had an outfit similar to Zabuza, except hers more consisted of more black and less stripes than Zabuza. She wore a black tanktop, black sandals, had no headband like Zabuza and a black version of Zabuza's bandage mask on. "Ren Telok here! Can't let all you guys have fun with Zabuza without me now."
Zabuza smirked, "Believe me, Ren's not gonna make it fun for your snot nose brats."
Kurenai smirked herself, having confidence in her team, "We'll see about that, Demon Of The Mist."
"Ohoho, you know of my work, doll-face? Well then, you should be running away."
"And you should have ran away. I don't like being called doll-face." Kurenai appeared in back of Zabuza in the bark of the tree with a kunai at his neck. Zabuza's face looked petrified as Kurenai slitted his neck cleanly...
Her response was Zabuza dissolving into water.
Kurenai gritted her teeth, hoping to catch the real Zabuza in her genjutsu.
Suddenly mist appeared under Team 8's feet. Naruto narrowed his eyes as the enemy girl disappeared from his view.
"Eight points." Zabuza's ominous voice rang from the mist. "Larynx, spine, lungs, liver, jugular, subclavian artery, kidneys, heart. So many choices, so little time to choose. Which one should I choose, Ren?"
"What about the jugular, Zabuza-sama? You'll be going to easy on them if you gave them something they could survive. Give them something to choke on instead." Ren's voice said through the other side of the mist. Her voice was just as bloodthirsty as her master's.
Zabuza's chuckles were hollow and help promise to Ren's suggestion. "Haha, you genin are too fresh and young. By the time I graduated, I already had killed. Have you genin ever killed before?"
'Yes.' was Naruto's initial thought, grim at the appearance of Zabuza. He knew Zabuza's game was just to scare the smaller ninjas away from battle, but as he looked around at his team, he knew it worked. 'Same crazy, powerful killer intent. That "New Girl's" killer intent isn't as bad either.'
It seems that killer intent was as much of a physical attack at his being as it was of a mental projection of promising death. Naruto's currently body could not shake off as quickly as Naruto's 25 year old mind could. Naruto actually realized he was a little shook up from it as well. However the body caught up with the mind shortly, and he took the killer intent surge in stride as soon as it gone away. It seemed however Hinata looked almost terrified for her life. She probably never even felt somebody truly want to slay her life and have willful disregard for it like Zabuza and Ren was.
As for Shino, his reaction almost gained snort of amusement from Naruto. Very quickly did Shino's stoic mask undo itself into Shino's true self – a boy still. He was a boy before a ninja after all. That's what killer intent did – made people feel inferior and like a child. Shino's reaction was what he expected. His black shades had did more than fog up, as the boy's face started to pour out small bullets of fear in the form of sweat.
Naruto barely leaped away cleanly as a kunai came to his own chest. Not know who it was, and not caring, he quickly flashed through hand seals and shouted, "Fuuton: Shippuuya!"
The wind arrows billowed through the mist, inadvertently making out a path of the thick mist for Naruto to clearly see. No site of Zabuza or that girl...
"Surprised that genin knows wind techniques." Zabuza said, genuinely surprised at Naruto's display of techniques, while at the same time again trying to kill the ninjas. With great strength, Zabuza lifted tried to bisect the same woman who used genjutsu to try and hold him in place. Kurenai barely rolled out the way, while trying to attack Zabuza with a kunai. His sword easily block it.
However, Zabuza had not forgot Kakashi Hatake. The legendary man tried to slam a kick to his open chest. Zabuza held his sword one-handedly, shielding Kurenai, while grabbing Kakashi's leg, much to the gray haired man's surprise.
Zabuza smirked, "Didn't expect me to be this physical strong huh?" Without warning, he pushed Kurenai back and tried slicing off the leg of Kakashi.
His cleaver sword only met water.
He clicked his tongue. "Sharingan copied my water clone, huh?"
"Let's just say I had prior knowledge of the technique." Kakashi said, his Sharingan making its debut in its battle.
"Let's see that red eye of yours in battle then, Kakashi!"
Naruto grunted and backflipped from a water clone's horizontal slash at him. "Hinata, Shino – need a little help here!"
They both snapped out of it, and nodded, while Tazuna ran out the way of the battle.
The Water Clone possessed good speed, having 1/10 of Zabuza's original speed. Naruto probably would be able to dodge it if it wasn't for the clone's sword taking up too much space in getting close.
Hinata came in, however, closiug distance between her and the clone in the back of it and slammed a good hit to his lower area. Shino also followed with a kick to the head and Naruto slammed a foot in the water clone's stomach. The clone dissolved into water and fell to the ground.
Naruto smiled momentarily.
"Forgot about me, children?" Ren said in back of them, and tried slamming Shino with a powerful kick. Shino spun, dodging the kick in its entirety and tried sweeping the girl off her feet. She did no such thing like fall, grabbed the boy's downed leg, pulled him down with superior strength. Shino quick raised his head and lifted his body and tried kicking her yet again. Then in an unorthodox manner, she did a handstand on it, and kicked the bug user on the back of his head. Shino fell back.
Apparently she's good in taijutsu, they concluded. The girl's style was like Naruto's – free and willing to try anything but also However, Shino and Hinata were definitely better when they got closer to their enemies, able to shutting them down while he finished them off.
Shino snapped, and a colony of his bugs came forth into his hands. Ren smirked, "Nin-bugs? I heard there is a certain clan in Konoha who can use bugs to defeat their opponents. Drain their chakra."
"That is correct."
"Well, unfortunately boy, I'm not gonna take any chances! Raiton: Raitateha (Lightning Release: Lightning Shield Blast)!" In a yellow flash, a yellow burst of lightning energy filled her every being, cloaking her from back to forth.
Naruto noted it had been just like A's – the Fourth (and possibly current) Raikage – Lighting Release Armor, which itself was a cloak of lightning energy to protect the user and keep enemies away. However, her cloak had been yellow and lacking the same "fury" the Raikage's cloak seemed to have and judging from her speed now that it was before, it seems the cloak did nothing to speed up the user. In lieu of himself preparing for the inevitable rush attack of this girl, Ren slammed a fist into the stomach of Naruto Uzumaki.
And it wasn't dainty.
Naruto flew back a few good twenty feet, spitting out saliva and blood, as he fellow.
Hinata's byakugan flashed dangerously at the enemy who just threw Naruto back with a blow and quickly went forth to attack her with a kunai. Now releasing what the cloak acted like, she backed up and threw a barrage of kunai knives at her enemy. Ren smirked and stood in place. Much to Hinata's horror, the kunai did nothing to slow her opponent down. The lightning shield cloak acted like a frying field and fried alive the kunai she threw, stripping down the metal to nothing but the handle that dropped uselessly at Ren's feet. "Too hot for you?"
She then tried pumping a fist in Hinata. Her speed being higher than Hinata, she did just that, and Hinata dropped in an useless heap like Naruto had done before.
Shino swore, slightly scowling nervously at Ren approaching him confidently. "Try to touch me now, bug boy." Ren boasted arrogantly.
Shino swore again.
Zabuza grinned as Kakashi again tried coming at him with a kunai, while Kurenai kept her distance, no doubt trying to pull off a genjutsu technique or rethink about attack Zabuza. The mist helped him get away from her site, so as long as he didn't try fighting her directly. The legendary copy-cat ninja was already a handful, coming evenly with him when it comes to strength. And that Sharingan really meant no time to pull off techniques that required hand-seals.
And he didn't want Kakashi throwing around his own techniques like that. Perfect.
"Suiton: Mizurappa (Water Release: Violent Water Wave)!" Zabuza heard out of nowhere.
Kakashi had jumped out the way, and dodged the wave of water rushing towards him, billowing through the mist. Kurenai had apparently shoot out the violent jet of water, having good concussive power to knock him back a few. Zabuza easily rolled out the wave and jumped onto the lake in back of him.
The mist was so thick, he had know Kurenai was just frankly shooting in the dark. However, this added more problems. Kurenai was already an all-around ranged fighter with her genjutsu which he eliminated with his mist technique and now she had water release techniques in her arsenal as well if her genjutsu.
Kakashi himself didn't need any technique class to find Zabuza – the man had been not only renown for his sharingan for tracking the movements of the opponent, but also his sharp-witted nose that was almost equivalent to a nin-dog's. Every so often he got away, Kakashi came back, rushing towards him with superior taijutsu.
Zabuza however knew the battle could turn in his favor anytime. The children has been their worries also. He didn't personally like slaying them but if he had to in order to get this money...
A kick aimed at his side jetted through the strong fog. Seems Kakashi's nose found Zabuza again. A little annoying to keep Kakashi off his tail, but he could do it.
Just took the right time. Patience. Deception. Feinting weakness.
Make them believe he was running into a corner.
And then...
"Suiro no Jutsu (Water Prison Technique)!"
Strike.
Kakashi swore. He swore to himself five times. How? How couldn't he see this coming?
The water under his very feet felt thicker. Something that should not have left unnoticed by someone of his own caliber. The adrenaline pumping in his body, the annoying fog constantly clouding his vision and forcing him to use his nose, the very ragging his own breath due to the sharingan active and his own frustration with Zabuza's retreating; they had been factors in his own foolish mistake to follow Zabuza out farther in the bay.
He could amusingly say that this prison did however eliminate him from using chakra if it wasn't for the fact there was no possible way to get out of this on his own.
Ah, at least he had Kurenai. At least she wouldn't make the foolish mistake to jump at Zabuza. Her calm, analytic mind would possibly-
"Suiro no Jutsu!"
Ah, he spoke too early, eh?
Zabuza looked at his water clones hold the two jounin and resisted the urge for firmly pat on the back, lest they disappear because of that action. Didn't want to free his new two trophies now.
Not only did he have Kakashi Hatake, infamous copy-nin in his grasp, but his little lackey who had a penance for genjutsu and water techniques. She couldn't fight long-range now, eh?
This really was his lucky day.
Naruto did not relax, only shook off the pain and confusion as he stood up. Hinata had been his side, also clutching to her stomach. She was helped up by Naruto and Naruto didn't even take time to wonder if she was blushing like crazy. He already had seen the serious daze and nervous glance she had on her face. Their opponent had been better, badder than the usual. Sure, defeating Mizuki took nothing but clones but this girl had some type of affinity to Lightning Release. Shit, where the hell did this girl come from? Has his actions really altered the past this much to get some different new girl to them. Who's to say she never existed though? A million ninjas out there that he never even met. But why did Zabuza had to get someone like this? His mind mulled back to Haku and suddenly with a grimace, he nodded.
Zabuza had an eye for the strong ones. The ones who were prodigious.
And in turn turned verystrong under his wing.
Shit, great.
Naruto didn't know where Hinata was when he was currently dodging arrows of lightning chakra and honestly could care less now. Those "pointy" spears of energy traveled fast as hell, he noted. Too fast for his own liking. He swore and started to summon more speed well over the limit a genin's speed is usually estimated at. He tried again his best to dodge it, and tried making it out the way of her attack. He didn't know where anyone was at. Not Hinata, Ren or Shino.
If only he could find them and think of a plan to...
Naruto palmed his face as he trailed off his thought. How stupid and naïve he could really be sometimes?
And without any more besides rolling his eyes, he started doing the necessary rat hand-seal to do it. Holding it in place, Naruto let out a pulse of energy in the area and felt three feedback waves come to him. Hinata had stayed on the right of him, nearby a tree that hide from the battle, the girl They felt nothing much but tinges.
Suddenly the clouds of fog and mist ate away from the field he was on. What an relief Zabuza mercifully – or arrogantly, whichever one – called off the technique, he thought in his head. He sighed gratefully, fully knowing where everyone was at. He then let go of his rat hand-seal and cut off the feedback waves from hitting him.
However the first lightning bolt he saw let him know that Ren had found where he was after she spent time wondering what the heck was that tingle she was feeling. "Raiton: Rairyuya (Lightning Release: Lightning Dragon Arrows)!"
Naruto's first instinct was to run, dodge and miss the incoming bullets. He followed such when running to the right of her, managing to run out of the ray the bullets were going. Naruto thought the technique seemed a lot of similar to his own Wind Release: Gale Arrows Technique – having one direction at a time, one path to follow down. However, he should have just kept running. In an instance, the missiles of lightning energy entered his area and attacked with just plain unnecessary force.
Hinata and Shino let out a nice small amounts of gasps as Naruto crashed stomach first into a tree, doing nothing to cushion his fall.
The girl smirked sadistically, watching Naruto go down with some sort of sick satisfaction for the blond boy's pain. However, she frowned when he got up, relatively not in pain, and her eyes widened when he became nothing short of a puff of smoke.
It had been a clone? Since when?, she wondered to herself, not happy with the blondie just suddenly disappearing.
That bug boy and the Hyuuga also disappeared too.
'Ah nostalgia, you never fail to hit me.'
How nostalgic was this? Seeing your teacher trapped in a water dome prison homey to anyone who decided to be trapped in there. He wondered if Kurenai-sensei felt the heaviness in the water like Kakashi-sensei had.
Kakashi had said them to run, run away and leave him there, but he didn't. They stood, fought, worked together – him and Sasuke. Naruto and him. First time they did, and it felt good working with somebody like that.
Now he was here again, only two people to save.
No sweat.
Zabuza's eyes bugged out as the yellow haired, orange wearing boy come at him with all his little genin speed on top of water. On top of water? Most freshman genin couldn't even do that! The fact that the boy and his two teammates were pretty much skating on the water spoke for itself. He had been internally impressed. Ren took less time than that learning that but still. They had been more than meets the eye.
However, the boy had been too headstrong, too naïve to go and run away. He would be lifting his sword off his back to try and get the boy, but he had Ren.
"Ren! Stop them!" He barked loudly.
She had wisely took off her field of electricity and joined her younger peers right on the water, only she jetted across the surface. Much to his displeasure though, the Aburame and the Hyuuga turned their sites on her, pushing her back from helping them.
Shit.
But still, the boy had been only foolish enough to try and take out the spheres of water imprisoning his jounin teachers instead of first taking him out. He let the boy take an experimental hit at the domes.
"Fuuton: Shippuya!" The arrow technique, an obvious copy of Ren's Lightning Dragon Arrows Technique did its work of fully sending wind arrows at the two domes evenly spread across.
However, much to the disappointment of the boy and the joy and amusement of himself, the arrows didn't even dent the water. Denting the water, really?
"Boy, you made your last mistake to try and fight me. You should have been listening to your teachers and ran while you can." He grinned maliciously. "Don't worry, I'll make it all better for you."
Without even lifting his sword, the real Zabuza stepped from in back of his clones and simply sent a kunai in the boy's chest. He gasped in pain. He liked that. The two jounin looked in horror as they seen the boy dropped back first into the water bleed profusely, liking Zabuza struck at a vein. He liked that too. He saw the horror never leave his teammate's eyes, and the devilish smirk on Ren's face.
Zabuza loved that.
"Is this the first time you genin seen death before?" He smiled arrogantly at them, not having much remorse for a dead genin. He had already killed 100 children in his life time. Three more brats won't do much to his conscious.
He couldn't hold back his boasts. They simply all rolled off his tongue so greatly.
If he did, he could have heard the rumble under the lake and felt the ripples at his own feet.
In a flash, his two clones were swallowed into the sea by a pair of arms at both of their feet with a loud splash. The two clones never came back up.
He swore under his mask loudly. 'Shit.'
Two more splashes in the water he heard. 'Double shit.'
Out came back up to the surface was the wet Kurenai Yuuhi whose glare heatedly for getting her hair wet.
Then came out Kakashi Hatake, hair wet as well, killer intent extending to the heavens, as Zabuza looked back at the hypnotic stare of his sharingan eye. 'T-Triple Shit.'
And finally out came back the reason for such ripples and rumbles in the water and why his clones "died". In a geyser's rise and fall, twelve blond hair boys glared heatedly at Zabuza Momochi – six on the left, and six on the right. One Naruto Uzumaki rose wet as hell, kunai nowhere to be seen in his chest anymore. They didn't looked as amused as he was when he tried to kill them. Apparently they also had a good feel on killer intent as well as his Ren.
'Today... Isn't my lucky day after all.'
Kurenai couldn't believe it. Her genin Naruto still after all of that went through the trouble to free her and Kakashi even when they agree to leave them there, run and protect Tazuna. They were brave, stood up, took on a task that she even said they couldn't do, all while surviving that other girl.
They were to be rewarded for such.
But right now, she agreed with Kakashi – this was not Naruto's fight right now.
Only there's.
"Naruto, I appreciate your clone's help but I think Shino and Hinata are gonna need a lot of helping hands with this one. Go to them."
"Roger!" Naruto grinned, too cheerfully for a boy who just got stabbed in the chest and thrown into the lake they were on.
If Kurenai wasn't so busy glaring at Zabuza, she would have laughed right for Naruto.
Zabuza's face hasn't let up from leaking out sweat as he felt no hold up from Kakashi's incredibly hypnotic stare and the power killer intent both jounin had him under. The boy went on to tend to Ren. Pity he couldn't use the boy as bait to get away from them anymore.
Kakashi grunted, "Let's finish this Zabuza."
"Unfair, Kakashi. You have two people on your side." Zabuza tried to joke.
Kakashi snorted, "You played unfair the minute you threw your sword. Time for us to do the same. Kurenai?"
Zabuza momentarily forgotten Kurenai was a practicer of genjutsu and that second to figure it out had been a second for her technique to work.
"Kage Oni no Jutsu (Shadow Orge Technique)!" He had never felt so blissful at sleep for a minute.
Then he felt pain explode in his dreams as Kakashi followed up with the Water Dragon Bullet Technique in record time.
Ren was like her master before she seen him be sent to the trees on the side of the lake – she had actually been nervous. No longer was she able to protect herself from the genin's attack without hurting her own self in the process. The Lightning Shield Blast Technique would fried her to death too even if they weren't smart enough to jump from the lake to get away from the sweeping electric currents.
She was also surrounded by a total of 14 little genin in all sides of her.
Shit, this isn't good.
And Zabuza-sama said "No" to using that technique, so...
Suddenly she didn't need to worry about such a thing when the Hyuuga sent a punch to her stomach, definitely closing up some points there, but not stopping when she also poked a few holes into her shoulders and arms too. And then those damn insects were upon her, starting to immobilize her quickly. She tried, unsuccessfully to move her arms in order to swat them away. They laid there, limp and useless. Finally, the yellow haired boy who made everything suckafter he took out Zabuza-sama's clones, snapped an ax-kick to her shoulders and then dropkicked her across the lake, with much power for a small, short thing like him. Them not being too far out from shore, she landed with a "thud" on the ground under her. She barely made back to land, her pants deep in the water while she laid there. She barely now could feel the bugs feasting on her chakra. It must have meant they have already feasted until it was nothing to even work with. She went into sleep for the rest of the battle.
Zabuza groaned, feeling a crazy head overflow him. He was tired, honestly. He didn't want to move and he was just too busy being pinned down by the Copycat Ninja. Kakashi held onto the belt that held his sword in place. "T-Tell me, I heard the Sharingan can see the future. Do you see som-something?"
"Yeah. Your death." Kakashi coldly stated, ready to fully end Zabuza's life with a kunai to his chest.
Unfortunately, a single senbon denied Kakashi's need for vengeance, and Zabuza ceased to exist anymore.
Kakashi tried holding his hand to his pulse to check if Zabuza really was dealt with and with some relief, the monster of a man was gone. He sighed and up in a tree across from him a hunter-nin stood, looking down from his spot. "Thank you, Konoha shinobi." Then again, it might have been a girl. "I been hunting this criminal for a long time. Now, the hunt is over."
"Heh, no problem." Kakashi said, putting his hands in pocket, and making sure his sharingan eye was not visible anymore. Kakashi knew Kurenai and her team had been slouching around to get to them. "His accomplish is over there to dispose of."
The hunter-nin nodded wordlessly, looking at the direction then gotten Zabuza's corpse and then teleported to collect Ren's unconscious one. Without so much of a wave – as Kakashi would have been pretty amazed if the hunter-nin could still do it with two bodies in arms – the hunter-nin disappeared from site.
Lucky to have a hunter-nin be there to properly dis-
His thoughts failed him as he barely even made it to Kurenai's arms as he collapsed in a heap of sheer tired and chakra exhaustion. Had he used that much chakra on the Sharingan? God, it was sure taxing on his bo-
And Kakashi was out like a light.
End.
Note: WHOOO! Made it through the chapter! Goddamn, fighting scenes are so hard. Well, hoped you liked it, even if it did feel short.
Now is the time to start hating me. I, DarkMasterStarr, just brought in a goddamn OC!
OC?
OC?
OH THE HORROR! HOW DARE HE? SHE WASN'T EVEN IN THE GODDAMN SHOW! YOU JUST WANTED AN EXCUSE TO BRING HER IN! AND SHE'S DUMB POWERFUL, WITH LIGHTNING RELEASE TECHNIQUES? WHAT THE FUCK, DARKMASTERSTARR?
Well... -coughs-, she does have a believable background! And Haku was strong in his clan's techniques even with the runaway time with Zabuza. The Lightning Release moves? How did she get those? Well, let's just say Zabuza stole some scrolls before he left the village on the count of trying to cause a coup d'etat. Decent plot device, yeah? Okay, then how did she get so fucking strong? Well, Zabuza got Haku strong right? He also did say Haku has potential and even has surpassed him in overall power, so who's the say Ren hasn't done the same.
...Fine, fine, DarkMasterStarr, you win that round, but WHY DID ZABUZA PICK HER? HUH? THEY SAID IN THE ANIME/MANGA THAT ZABUZA AND HAKU SAW KIMIMARO BUT THEN DECIDED TO TURN HIM DOWN! WHAT THE FUCK MAKES HER SPECIAL?
Well, boys and girls, we all know how much of an eye does possess Zabuza for picking talent and his reasons too. Let's just say Ren's special as well.
Other questions that might be asked is... why was Kakashi picked for this mission only? Why wasn't Team 7 here? If you was going to do that, bastard, why not just send chunnins well on Team 8's way to help.
One: Kakashi's stronger than three chunnin.
Two: Kakashi's team are still growing. Getting a mission like that would go to their heads.
Three: Kakashi does travel faster. No worry for genin, or controlling his own team in this situation.
Four: If I did writing in a chunnin team, more useless introducing and thinking up dialogue. God, as if it wasn't hard already.
Five: My story, my reign over it. I did get help from the reviewers though, some who gave me suggestions on what is the right then to do next. I just thought logically about it. I was originally gonna slate Team 7 with Team 8 since it seemed to be the right thing to do, however, it probably would be overkill to my Ren character being cornered by six genin. She probably would have humorously died on the mission then. Hahaha. Plus, somebody would have died on that mission. In Haku's Demonic Ice Mirrors, Sasuke wouldn't quite lay his life down for Naruto and so far no one as of yet. Plus, a team of genin and the build builder to worry about? It would kinda suck... Still don't know how I'ma handle part 3 of this arc. Hmm...
Technique List!
Shadow Orge Technique (Kage Oni no Jutsu) – The user causes the opponent to see six demonic creatures approach them. By the time they see that, it's over. The attack has already struck, leaving the opponent unconscious.
Rank: C
Chakra Usage: Medium
Technique Class: Supplementary
Type/Classification: Genjutsu
Hand Seals: Snake → Boar → Ox → Rat
Range: Short-range
Users: Kurenai Yuuhi
Lighting Release: Lightning Shield Blast (Raiton: Raitateha) – The user creates a shield of lightning chakra that covers the user much like Lightning Release Armor. However, the technique itself does not make the user faster or stronger and does not augment any other lightning release attacks from the user. The shield can fry anything projectile thrown at the user and taijutsu as well.
Rank: None
Chakra Usage: Medium
Technique Class: Defensive/Supplementary
Type/Classification: Ninjutsu, Chakra Flow
Range: Short-range
Hand Seal(s): Ram → Snake → Bird
Users: Ren Telok
Lightning Release: Lightning Dragon Arrows (Raiton: Rairyuya) – The user shoots several projectiles created out of electrical energy shaped into arrows. This move is very like Wind Release: Gale Arrows, how they act much faster and have a paralyzing side-effect should they hit their opponent. Furthermore, they become faster the longer they stay in the air, the stronger they become. Most effective long range.
Rank: B-rank
Chakra Usage: High
Technique Class: Offensive
Type/Classification: Ninjutsu
Range: All ranges
Hand Seal: Ram → Dragon → Snake → Dragon → Bird
Users: Ren Telok
The Water Release: Violent Water Wave, the Water Prison Technique and the Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet all belong to Kishimoto-sama and all the creators of Naruto. The technique list is all me!
Well, that's enough for the author's note, kids. Thanks for reading.
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