Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Pot—erm…sorry wrong section! I mean: I don't own Naruto.

Author's Note: I have a bad news for both of us. I will update my fics slower. And before you yell at me, you just had to know that I have logical reason. After mid exam, I got more lessons and the problem is even before the exam my schedule is already tight as it is. Right now, 3 of my lessons give me torturous hours and I don't think I can finish all assignments. I don't get enough sleep and I'm pretty snappish.

Sigh Why did I ever enter architecture again? Oh yeah right, because of my dad who 'asked' me to. Ugh I don't think I can get good mark this semester (not that I get good mark in previous semesters. I only got average. At least it wasn't bad mark though I failed one of my lessons in 1st semester).

The other thing that made me angry was that I lost a part of this fic (the fighting part) that I wrote because the light went out as I wrote the fic in my computer! Problem was that I didn't know that I lost that part (because the computer was supposed to automatically recover the fic, so I decided to go back to sleep instead of writing again) until the time where I wanted to continue writing this again (which is now). And at that time, I had completely forgotten what I had written. That's why I decided to cut this story. The fight between Zabuza and Naruto will be in the next story. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Oh well, enough chit-chat. Hopefully you'll enjoy it.

Part Ten

Team 7 and Tazuna watched as boils started to sprout from the two who were called as Demon Brothers in disbelief and horror, while Naruto seemed interested at the effect of the antidote. After mentally scaring them to choose between themselves, while the actual antidote was enough for them, Naruto made them drink the antidote after saying that he was only joking, making his group members facefaulted for succeeding in lying and scaring them all. The 2 ex-Mist shinobis were indeed not trying to scratch themselves anymore, the problem was... boils started to sprout and made them feel like being burned.

"YOU LIED TO US!" one of them accused the amused Naruto.

"Actually, no I didn't. It was indeed the antidote, but I don't know that there would be these… side effects, for the lack of better word. Hm…I should've thought of it. Anyway thanks for being my guinea pig. The special itching powder and its antidote are my fairly new products and I haven't had the time to test them yet. But thanks to you, I will have the data I need soon to improve them. Hold your hand—oh, sorry, I forget that you were bound," the blonde genin mocked as he took out a syringe and jabbed it roughly, not wanting to be gentle on the prisoners, on the one who shouted before Kakashi could intercept. A painful scream rang on the air.

Naruto collected the blood on a plastic tube with a pleased smile on his face. "Hatake, you can send them to Konoha now. By the way, tell Ibiki I expect my payment later afterall this two are missing-nins."

Kakashi shot a curious glance at Naruto. "You know Ibiki?"

"Of course, I need guinea pigs and Ibiki is always happy to use my products on his prisoners. He gets answer from them and I get my payment. It is an ideal way of earning money. Genin's payment just plain sucks!"

"Kakashi-sensei, who is this Ibiki?" Sakura asked after being silent for so long.

"Morino Ibiki, he's the Head of Interrogation. An advice: Stay away from him!" the jounin instructor warned.

"Nonsense, he's only cruel to his…victims, he just likes to intimidate people and boy did he like to do that to everyone," Naruto said amusedly. "And by the way…" he turned to Tazuna who flinched at the narrowed eyes fixed on him. "Mind tell us the truth or should I use some tricks that Ibiki taught me?"

"Yes, we'd like to hear it too," the silver haired jounin said firmly, ignoring the pleading look sent on his way.

The bridge builder sighed. "Do you know Gatou?"

"The name seems familiar," Kakashi trailed off.

"A criminal lord who sell drugs, monopoly markets in some place, and have a big role in the black market everywhere," Naruto answered. The other four looked at him in surprise.

"You know him, Naruto?"

"Know him? No. Know of him? Yes. Unlike Haruno over there I'm not just reading ninja theory," she winced at the jab. "Plus Ibiki is a good source of information."

"I see," Kakashi nodded. "And what about him?" he turned back to the sweating Tazuna.

"Actually I think I know. Wave is a poor archipelago country. They need to trade if they want to flourish. Gatou must have seen it. He probably isolated Wave and monopoly the transportation over there and since old man here is a bridge builder of course he wanted his head separated from his body for décor on his house, a trophy you could say," Tazuna and the other shinobis gaped openly at the smirking boy.

"Is he right?"

"…Yes," the Wave citizen admitted. "We can only afford C-rank mission. Even our own daimyo didn't have money! Please, you have to help us or we are doomed. When the bridge is finished, Wave will be able to pay for a higher rank mission!"

Kakashi scratched his head. "The problem isn't the money. We're only a genin team, a new one at that. We should go back to Konoha and request a chunnin or jounin team for this job."

"No way, I want to get out of Konoha longer!" you guessed who shouted.

"And we're perfectly capable handling this mission," Sasuke added firmly, wanting a chance to try out his technique in real battle.

"…I think we should take this mission, Kakashi-sensei," Kakashi stared in surprise at the pink haired girl. He thought that she wanted to back away from the mission, especially after Naruto's hurtful words. It seemed that she had a backbone afterall.

Kakashi looked at his genin team. The boys were glaring while the girl sent him a pleading look. With a sigh he nodded. "Alright, but I will request another genin team from Konoha," he held out his hands when Sasuke opened his mouth to protest. Naruto didn't care since he only wanted to get away from Konoha. "If you refuse, I won't accept this mission," he told him firmly. Sasuke scowled, but didn't say anything. Kakashi summoned his fastest messenger dog and sent it to Konoha. "Let's go."

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Naruto smirked when he heard his fox yipped. Ever since the revelation yesterday the group was always alert, even Haruno didn't fall asleep on her shift.

The red fox brushed its tail to Naruto's leg. He soon received 2 images from his 2 other foxes in the forest. One of the images was that of a big man with an equally big sword. There was a slashed Mist hitae-ate on his forehead. The other guy in the other hand was much smaller. He was wearing a mask with Mist symbol on it. 'Mist hunter-nin?' his fox yipped and shook its small head. 'Ah…so the smaller guy has the scent of the bigger guy. His disguised subordinate then. Probably making sure nothing goes wrong or to spy on us. They're pretty clever,' the red fox jumped to Naruto's shoulder and purred. Naruto chuckled and feed it and the other 2 foxes via the red fox his chakra as a thanks. The fox purred in contentment and yipped telling Naruto that its other friends appreciated the gift. "Anytime, my friend. Anytime," Naruto petted the fox.

"I'm going to scout ahead," was what he said before he disappeared.

"Should we wait for him?" Sakura asked.

"Hn, leave him alone. He's only a nuisance," the Uchiha heir scoffed.

"Actually he isn't nuisance, but Sasuke is right. Leave him, I'm sure Naruto will be able to find us," the group left Naruto.

"Kakashi-sensei, is Naruto's clan has the ability to speak with fox just like Inuzuka clan's ability to speak with dog?" Sakura asked curiously. Sasuke turned his head to Kakashi also wanted to know his answer.

"As far as I know, Naruto didn't come from any clan. It's his own ability, I think," Kakashi was thinking of Kyuubi.

With Naruto

Naruto jumped to the branch 50 meters from the big shinobi silently. Instead of repressing his chakra, he blended it with nature's own chakra. Repressing his chakra would be enough for lesser shinobi, but the man in front of him was a battle-hardened shinobi with many experiences. An alert shinobi of this kind would immediately felt the change in chakra environment because repressing chakra meant that there was a void in the nature. And instead of hiding it would make it easier for him to pin point his location.

Naruto took out his bingo book he got from Ibiki and searched for the man's data incase he was one of the shinobis who was written there. He smirked when he got the data.

His name is Zabuza, one of the seven Swordsmen of the Mist. He became missing-nin after trying to take over Mist and failed. Mizukage warranted him, dead or alive. The reward was high because he was categorized as an A-class missing-nin.

Naruto closed his book. He didn't search for Zabuza's subordinate's data because he was wearing a mask. If he wanted to know the smaller guy's identity it would mean that he had to fight him. What to do? Should he finish the man and his subordinate here, or should he let them have a taste of Kakashi and his team? Well, he did want to see what Kakashi and the Uchiha capable of…

With a smirk he left Zabuza and headed back to his group.

"Do you find anything?" his sensei asked.

"None of your interest, Hatake," he replied with a smirk. Kakashi narrowed his eyes in suspicion.

"No really. I insist! Whether it is of my interest of not, I will be the one to decide," the ex-anbu demanded.

"You can insist, but that doesn't mean I will comply," the bright blue orbs stared intently at Kakashi's eyes.

"San—"

"And don't ever think to bring the old man into this! My deal with him stated that I will join Konoha's shinobi, but it doesn't state that I will be Konoha's lapdog," the boy sneered maliciously. "I know that you know I despise Konoha with all my heart."

"Then you shouldn't agree with the deal sandaime offered to you," Naruto's father's student pointed out.

"If it meant my whole freedom from that hell hole, I can sacrifice anything. Beside even if the old man didn't offer it, I will get out of Konoha in time."

"You plan on becoming a missing-nin?" the jounin asked sharply, there was an underlying threatening tone on his voice. The others only looked back and forth between them. The temperature dropped a few degrees in such short time.

"What?" Naruto narrowed his eyes. A cruel smirk was plastered on his face. "You don't think I never consider it before? Of course I have thought and even planned of it for years."

"Do you think that no hunter-nin will be dispatched to fetch or kill you even if you're still a genin?"

"Oh, please…Do you think they can do anything to me? I have learned to harness that power, if you catch my drift, and I am able to fight without it," he heard a gasp came out of the instructor's mouth.

"You know about it?"

"What does it look like?" Naruto asked back.

"You do know about it."

"Of course I am. Don't you think I'll try to find out something that made all of those pathetic people despise me just like I despise them?"

"Actually…no. And how did you know about it? I'm sure that no adult will tell you about it because of the law, and they hated you."

"I got the information straight from its source of course," Naruto smirked cheekily. His team's jounin sensei seemed at lost of anything to say as the realization of what he said dawned on his brain. Naruto had come in contact with the fox demon!

"Will you try to get revenge? Or are you just that power-hungry that you contact this source?"

"I don't really care about power," Konoha White Fang's son stared at him in disbelief. Naruto continued, "But if power is what I need to get my freedom, then I'll do anything to grab it. As for revenge, yes, I do want to avenge my misery and unjustness done to me, although it was only a second priority after my freedom."

"Your father will be disappointed to see—" Kakashi's eyes widened, realizing that he had just slipped out.

Naruto raised an amused eyebrow, not even appeared to be a bit shocked. "Oh? So, you do know who I am really?" Kakashi's eyes went wider if that was possible. Naruto chuckled. "You think I don't know of it? I have known about my father," he spat "Ever since I was still a kid. You and Konoha might think of him as a hero, but for me, he's nothing but a traitor to his own son," the other three were wondering who exactly was Naruto's father. "He sacrificed me, his only son."

"It's for the greater good," Kakashi tried to defend his former sensei.

Naruto scoffed. "Greater good, you say? Right now, I'm almost reaching my patient limit. I have a real high patience, you know. Afterall my whole life is kind of a test of how far I can take all of this crap. But even I don't have unlimited patience. If someone dared to cross the line, I'll make sure that when I'm done with them, my father in dead realm will realize that the so-called greater good isn't so great afterall and that he made a mistake sacrificing me to save those fools," he hissed. Naruto suddenly looked up and jumped from his spot when he heard the wind change.

"DUCK!" He heard Kakashi yelled as a huge sword was thrown to their direction. All three followed Kakashi's lead, while Naruto growled angrily on a tree for being interrupted.

The giant sword crashed the ground behind them. Naruto's acute eyes glared at where Zabuza stood. The missing-nin came out behind a tree with a chuckle.

"A squabble between student and teacher, I see," he said amusedly. "And Hatake Kakashi…no wonder the Demon Brothers failed. They faced against the infamous Copy Nin Kakashi whose sharingan was said that it had copied thousands of jutsu all around the world," The former Mist-nin said, not knowing that it was Naruto who finished them odd. Sasuke's eyes widened when he heard what the man called Kakashi.

"Impossible…" he muttered in disbelief. Sakura glanced at him worriedly, wondering what made her crush lost his composure like this.

"Sakura, Sasuke, guard Tazuna!" he snapped them out of their thoughts. The 2 genins scrambled on their feet and readied for an attack. "I suppose this is what you said as not of my interest?" the jounin eyed Naruto above him.

"Indeed…" Naruto growled as he eyed the missing-nin with anger. He really hated it when people always messed with him. "Do you know that it's rude to interrupt someone when he is talking?"

"Oh I'm sorry for my rudeness. I guess I have to introduce myself first, don't I?" the bandaged face man mocked.

"I have known who you are."

"Oh?" Zabuza raised an eyebrow, clearly surprised that a kid like him knew who he was. "I don't know that I am that famous."

"Not really, I just have a complete guide of shinobi's data, the bingo book. You're Zabuza, former Mist shinobi who went AWOL and became A-class missing-nin . You tried to overthrown your Mizukage, but failed and was on the run ever since. Have I missed anything important?" the blonde vessel grinned mockingly.

The fomer Mist shinobi growled at being reminded of his failure. "How dare you!" he hissed through his teeth.

"Hey, you're the one who acted rude first. You shouldn't complain! At first I intend to watch you fight Hatake and that Uchiha boy, but you infuriated me. Let's play!" Naruto smirked from above and vanished in an instant.

The missing-nin's eyes widened, before he scanned his environment for the blond to no avail.

Naruto reappeared in front of Zabuza. The Mist missing-nin's eyes widened as he held up his right arm to block a kick sent to his way. The kick wasn't connected to his face, but he still felt the impact as his body was pushed back a meter.

Realizing that his younger opponent was not just ordinary shinobi, Zabuza quickly retrieved his blade. He got into a fighting stance. The blonde boy stood in relaxed stance. A smirk was plastered on his face as he made a gesture for the older shinobi to attack him. Zabuza narrowed his eyes for a moment before he dashed toward the infuriating blond with a cry.

Kakashi and the others were standing on their spot as the battle commenced.

TBC…

For anyone who thinks that Naruto has a mood swing or something, you're right. Naruto isn't exactly …er…stable. He could be his in his usual 'irritating' mode as kakashi dubbed, to 'die' scumbag!' mode if someone push the wrong button there.

For the ones out there who think that Naruto will train Sakura to be better, you're definitely wrong. Naruto will kill her first simply because she exists and for being annoying, before even considering to train her. If Sakura wants to be better, she has to do it on her own.

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