Diamond Hound Naruto Chapter 10 For some reason, words are missing from sentences when I reread my story, its there in the document but apparently when I post its goes missing, huh I didn't know words could be shy. I do not own Naruto Or One piece. -LAST-TIME- "KAKASHI-SENSEI!"
"One down." One gloated.
"Three more to go." The other finished with a sadistic tone in his voice they rushed towards their next target, Naruto. Sakura quickly drew a kunai and stood in front of their client. Sasuke however, threw a shuriken at the long chain that connected to the brothers making it stuck to a tree and threw a kunai to keep it in place, Meizu 'tsked' and quickly disconnected both him and his brother, Sasuke quickly engaged Gozu, locked against gauntlet and Kunai, those two-deadly weapons both sang their songs of death.
"You think you got a chance against me?" Gozu asked. "I've killed more men since you were in diapers."
Sasuke gritted his teeth as he was being overpowered by the bigger and more experienced shinobi in front of him. "Damn, I have to do something." Sasuke then jumped back and started weaving hand-seals.
"FIRE STYLE: GRAND FIREBALL JUTSU! (火遁・豪火球の術Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu" Sasuke bellowed as a large ball of fire rushed towards the Mist Nuke-Nin. Gozu rolled out of the way but his back was singed by the heat of the Jutsu, he didn't had time to recover as Sasuke threw shuriken at him. Sasuke then wielded two kunais and rushed at the Nuke-Nin throwing a barrage of attacks.
Naruto composed himself and reached for his steal pipe as he engaged Meizu. Meizu looked surprised at Naruto's choice of weaponry, that however cost him, as he was paying more attention to the steel pipe he didn't register a Naruto clone erupted from the earth with a fist encased in diamonds. As Meizu was going to insult Naruto for his weapon he felt nothing but pain then the world went black. He got strucked in the temple, fortunately for Meizu he is wearing a mask that cushioned most of the blow, if it wasn't for that masked, Gozu would have lost a brother.
Gozu ducked and weaved through the last loyal Uchiha barrage of attacks, he saw, in the corner of his eye Meizu collapsed. Feeling rage that his brother was defeated rushed to Naruto who was unaware of the incoming danger, as Gozu loomed over Naruto he got clotheslined by the Copy-cat ninja.
"Kakashi-Sensei!" Sakura yelled in relief, Tazuna too was relieved. In more ways than one if the dark spot on his pants was any indication.
"Great work you guys, Sakura for rushing to protect the clients and Naruto and Sasuke for holding on your own against Chunin level ninjas." Kakashi eye-smiled, he knew they could beat them, not to brag or anything, Kakashi was confident that he got the strongest team Konoha produced in this generation, he might as well be looking at the second coming of the Sannins right here.
"Sensei, not that am glad or anything, but how are you alive, we saw you got ripped to pieces." Sakura asked as she, the client and her two teammates looked at the spot where Kakashi supposedly 'died'. Sakura paled, Sasuke closed his eyes and Naruto turned away, only Tazuna lost his breakfast while Kakashi looked sheepish. Laying there dead on the ground in a pool of its own blood was a deer with it's entrails thrown all over the place.
"Gomen, I had to make it looked like I actually died so I Kawarimi'd with a nearby deer I spotted and placed a Henge on it to make it look like me." Kakashi explained. Sakura and Sasuke nodded, while Naruto looked at the deer then had a large smile splitting his face.
"At least." Naruto said drawing the attention from the shredded deer to him. "We have dinner..."
Sasuke and Sakura sweat dropped. Kakashi cleared his throat drawing the attention to him.
"Now, lets get back to business, right Tazuna?" Kakashi eye-smiled at the now sweating bridge-builder.
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"So a Multi-Million Ryo shipping tycoon Gato has taken over your country and started to oppress your people, is that correct?" Kakashi asked after hearing Tazuna story on why he lied about the mission ranking, apparently his country was poor, even the daimyo has barely enough, and so they added their Ryo up enough for a C-rank mission. Tazuna nodded. "And so, you decided to build a bridge to connect with the mainland to relinquish his hold on your country?" Tazuna nodded once again. "But now his eyes are set on you because you and your bridge are a threat to his business." Tazuna looked down. Kakashi eyed Tazuna before turning to his team.
"Guys get ready we are turning back." Kakashi announced. This mission turned B-rank, possibly A depending on who Gato hires to come after the bridge-builder.
"Please." Tazuna dropped on his knees and bow his head. "Please Kakashi-Sama, don't abandon me and my country, we need this bridge." He begged. Kakashi shrugged nonchalantly and turned his back.
"Not my problem, because of your lie, you could have gotten my Genins killed."
"I see." Tazuna said, his straw hat covering his eyes he was ready to bring out his trump card, the guilt trip. "I guess my cute poor grandchild will just have to cry and cry for his dear old grandpa, he lost his father, but clearly that isn't enough, and my widowed daughter will be forced to sell her body to make barely adequate food for her only child and grow to hate Konoha."
Kakashi eyes twitched, Naruto and Sasuke looked down, something on the floor suddenly grasp their interest and Sakura had unshed tears in her eyes.
"I" Sakura started off. "I can't abandon these people Kakashi-sensei, they need us." Kakashi and her two team mates looked at Sakura in shock, they thought that she would try to back out of this and try to convince them that they were not ready for this. Sasuke smirked.
"It wouldn't look good on the village or the Uchiha clan if we abandon someone in need like this, grovelling on the dirt floor, we are not Iwa." Tazuna hopes started to rekindle.
"Well what about you Naruto, are you set on finishing this mission?" Asked Kakashi, his lone eye stared intently on Naruto. Naruto smirked and hugged both his team-mates.
"If my team-mates are in this, then so am I, I would never abandon my team-mates, Dattebayo." Naruto grinned. Kakashi looked at Tazuna.
"Well here you have it, one Genin team ready to escort you to liberate you people." Kakashi eye smiled. Tazuna looked up with tears of joy streaming down his face.
"All right gang, let go!" Kakashi announced, Inner Tazuna had a cheeky smile while holding his hands up in a peace sign with the embolden words Victory over his head.
"By the way Tazuna after this I hope you can pay Konoha back, for a full B-A rank mission." Kakashi said. The inner Tazuna suddenly had comical tears streaming down his face as the embolden words broke and the 'tory' fell on top of his head leaving a bump.
"Hai, Kakashi-Sama." Tazuna said weakly.
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Team seven and friend made camp in the same area that night, Naruto started to cook the deer into a stew, Gozu and Meizu were both away and tied with ninja wire glaring at their captors. As Naruto mixed the stew Sakura tried to get to know Naruto a little bit more.
"Wow." Sakura said as she sniffed the exquisite aroma that was radiating from the stew. "I didn't know you could cook."
"Well, I had to feed myself after all." Naruto told her. Sakura frowned at that, feed himself? What happen to his family, she knows his father is Hokage-Sama, and his mom the Habanero of the leaf. Why would he have to feed himself if he had both his parents?
"Why what about your Kaa-Chan, wouldn't she cook for you and your siblings?" She asked, she then saw Naruto face got dark after mentioning his ex-mother. Sakura didn't know what she said wrong.
"That Onna (1) never cooked for me, please can we change the subject?" Naruto seems like he was asking but he had a demanding tone. Sakura nodded. There was solemn silence between the two before Sakura started again.
"Naruto?"
"Yeah?"
"I'm sorry, I'm so very sorry the way I treated you before, I hated you for stupid and selfish reasons, I failed to see that you're an actual nice guy." Sakura said as she looked down in the fire, too ashamed to look at Naruto.
Naruto looked at Sakura with wide eyes, his eyes then softened, and he place one hand over her head and started to pet her.
"Don't sweat it, we're teammates now right, we got to look out for each other." Naruto told her, he got up and grabbed some bowls and poured the Deer stew, he gave one to Sakura who accepted graciously, then to Sasuke who nodded his head, and to Kakashi and Tazuna. Naruto got two more bowls and walked towards the bounded Demon Brothers. He placed the two bowls in front of them.
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"Why?" Gozu asked. Naruto looked confused.
"Why what?" He asked, this time Meizu repeated the question.
"Why, why are you all keeping us alive, and actually treating us like people?" He yelled out frustrated.
"Because you are people." Naruto answered. Gozu and Meizu eyes widened before looking down.
"No we're not, we are just merely tools for our employers." Gozu said.
"We are just Shinobi, killing is all we know, and its all we ever do." Meizu said.
"So we have no right to call our selves people." They both said simultaneously. Naruto shook his head.
"Ninja's are people too, you choose whether or not you're a tool like you say, or a person." Naruto said. "But, remember this, no matter what you call your self a tool, a demon, etcetera, you will always be a person in my eyes."
Naruto told them before getting up leaving the two brothers. They never met someone who regarded them as people, their mother disowned them calling them demon spawns, their father who was a Seven Ninja sword man, died before they were conceived by some leaf ninja by the name of Might Dai, they were bred as killers and killed their comrades and friends in the hidden mist. They were both alone, only had each other, then their enemy who they tried to kill a few hours earlier treated them like a person. For the first time, the two brothers were happy, not drunk happy, not I just killed a challenging shinobi happy, but like the joy of being acknowledge as a fellow human being and not jut a stone-cold killer.
"Hey Gozu-nii?" Meizu called out.
"Yeah Imouto?" Gozu answered?
"i-I don't want to do this anymore, I don't want to be a tool anymore." He said with tears streaming out of his eyes.
"Yeah, me too." He told his little brother, the both picked up the stew, blew on it then took a sip.
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"THIS IS SO GOOD!" they thought both in bliss, it's like their taste buds were enlightened and ascended to Buddha.
Kakashi eye-smiled as he saw the whole thing and watched his student walking back to camp.
"Naruto, you sure can bring out the best in people huh?" Kakashi thought with pride. "I'm so proud Naruto more than you ever know, maybe, you'll be able to change everyone's ideology of Shinobi as tools."
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Kakashi brought the two brothers into authority, and wasn't surprised as they say they are now going to change their ways. He walked with his students and client down a dirt path, he saw Naruto tensed up a bit, he was proud, after the confrontation of the demon brothers, he knew he shouldn't be so lax, not knowing who Gato might hire.
Naruto heard rustling in the bushes and quickly threw a kunai, hearing a high pitch squeal of pain, he looked in the bushes and saw a death boar with the kunai lodge in his throat. Naruto sighed. He was getting to tensed. He heard another rustle and quickly removed the Kunai from the Boar's neck and threw it in the direction of where the sound was originating from. Sasuke ran over and check the bushes only to find a snow-white hare with comical tears streaming down its face as the kunai almost severed his manhood. Male hood? Rabbit hood? Fuck it!
"Jeez Naruto, calm down your making us all nervous." Sasuke chastised. Naruto scratched the back of his head.
"You damn super brat, giving me a heart attack over a friggen rodent?" Tazuna grumbled. He was really scared, he wanted to hurry home, so he doesn't get in the middle of a Ninja Super Showdown again.
"Eh sorry." Naruto chuckled. Sakura and Kakashi eyed the Hare
"That's odd, I remember reading about big-footed Hares changing the color of their fur due to the seasons, and it's summer now so shouldn't its fur be brown?" Sakura wondered. Kakashi however, knew the situation they were in.
"The Hare' fur, it didn't change during season, so it must have been bred in captivity, OF COURSE A KAWARIMI!" Kakashi lone eye widened. He grabbed Tazuna and Sakura.
"NARUTO, SASUKE DUCK!" He yelled, and duck they did.
A large Butcher looking knife flew over head and lodge itself in an unfortunate tree, the wielder of such brutal looking blade landing right on top off it.
He was shirtless with a baggie pants with camo leg warmers and arms bracers, he had greyish skin and dark black hair where his headband was set in a upright fashion, he wore bandages on the lower portion of his face, his sharp black eyes analyzed the Genins in front of him then to his target, Tazuna had shivers going down his spine when he saw that predatory gleam in this unknown NIns eyes. The Shinobi eyes then traveled to the lone Hatake, eyes widened in recognition.
"Well well well, Sharingan no Kakashi, the Copy-cat of the leaf." He said in a mocking tone. "It's is an honor to meet a legend face to face here."
"And you too, Momochi Zabuza, The Demon of the Hidden Mist." Thanks for reading and please PLEASE review. What should the pairing for our young blond should be or the story is good enough without one. I would love to hear your opinions in the review sections. Your self-proclaimed Papa,
TBC
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