Okay those that love reading this I thank you for being patient right now I'm going through some life issues so don't worry I'll try to update once or twice a month or two.
Also for those that want to know about Naruto's situation think about how many fanfics and ideas there are of Naruto. It's not a Hanyuu time loop displacement.
Chapter 10: Beings from the Abyss Pt 1
Featherine sat in her chair drinking a cup of tea. Thinking about those children of man that she had trounced. Wondering why she let them go in the first place.
Maybe it was to let them try coming at her again.
Maybe she did it on a whim.
Maybe it was because she had no interest in them.
Or maybe it was to see what those two would make happen next.
Oh, well at least she could entertain herself by visiting that vicious little kitten. In a flock of purple butterflies she disappeared from the checkerboard area to the room where Lambdadelta and Bernkastel watched their little show.
Naruto just looked at the cat named Tora with pity. Bernkastel had taught him how to take care of her cat familiars. That experience told him the scene the lords chubby wife was making right now just wasn't right. The woman was borderline torturing that cat as she hugged it. Naruto watched as she walked out of the room and prayed to the cat deity for Tora's life as it's owner walked out with said cat in hand.
"May whatever deity watch over that cat," Naruto whispered loudly.
Sakura and Sasuke felt that the cat deserved whatever fate befall it. They still resented Tora for it had scratched Sasuke in the face. And just like the infatuated girl she was Sakura in turn felt nothing but contempt for the pitiful creature named Tora.
Naruto rolled his eyes at the glare he received from his teammates.
"Well, there are a few missions left here," Sarutobi said as he took out a folder", let's see here, you can baby-sit a councilman's nephew, pick up litter, there are-
"Can you please give us a mission that we can sink our teeth in, old man," Naruto exclaimed.
Sakura sighed at Naruto's lack of respect and readied herself to punch the boy but Kakashi beat her to the punch by gently bopping Naruto on the head.
"Look Naruto even with your special training you and the rest of team seven are still fresh-"
"Hold that thought Iruka," The third said thinking that a upper level mission might be just the thing that he needed to make Naruto show more of his skills and techniques.
Kakashi couldn't help but feel that the third was planning something that will give him a headache later.
" I do have a C-rank mission if your really that eager for more difficult missions."
Yup a headache was definitely forming.
" Mh, when I asked for a harder mission this isn't what I had in mind," Naruto muttered as they walked through the forested trail with the grey haired tough looking old man wearing a grey shirt and pants combo carrying supplies on his back. The mans name was Tazuna.
"You really shouldn't complain about things you put yourself through," Kakashi said after he explained that wave didn't have any shinobi of their own to Sakura as well as the explanation of the five different Kages. Naruto was simply staring at the sky feeling bored wondering the point of this mission. He never noticed the puddle on the side of the road.
Naruto was oblivious to the two figures wearing grey camouflaged cloaks, both wore breathe respirators and a metal claw on one hand that had a chain keeping them connected slowly and quietly rising from the puddle.
Naruto felt a sliver of a foreign presence appear in the area. Just then the Kakashi was wrapped in sharpened chains with a sharp tug making it appear to slice him in half.
Sakura's eyes widened but narrowed and realized that she had to move as she appeared in front of Tazuna with a kunai in her hands in a defensive stance.
Sasuke sped in front of the serious looking Sakura and slipped into the guard of the assailant then kicking him back. Then the boy charged at the foreign nin that tried to swipe at the boy only to miss as Sasuke ducked then kicked out the clawed shinobi's feet from under him. Sauske then followed up with a drop kick to the clawed nin's solar plex knocking the man out.
The other foreign nin shouted "brother."
"PAY ATTENTION," Naruto shouted he smashed his fist into the nin's face then continued with a devastating barrage of punches. From the perspective of the audience watching it looked as if a Naruto's fist were glowing red blurs as he knocked the shinobi for a loop.
Naruto reared back his right fist then smashed his fist in the shinobi's stomach sending the guy into a tree making a large crack in it. Naruto then sped to the man then gave the foreign shinobi a red glowing roundhouse kicked the man kicking him through the tree. The chain that connected the man dragged the other shinobi with him.
"Well that was easy," Naruto said as he walked to his astonished group. Naruto may not have looked it but his physical strength was pushed to the very limit by Bernkastel on a daily basis. That along of the hardly changing time space displacement made his muscles literally have more power than they appear. Instead of growing with the strength as time went by Naruto's physical strength merely by compensation became as strong as a heavily trained martial artist.
It was obvious Naruto's opponent was down for the count, Sasuke's opponent though slowly rose behind the apparently unwary boy. The shinobi that Sasuke had taken down rushed at Naruto in a blind rage only to have Kakashi appear with his arm around the foreign shinobi's neck.
Naruto didn't look surprised at all.
But Sakura's eyes widened with a shout of, " Kakashi-sensei?"
"Body Replacement jutsu," Sasuke said looking at the torn pieces of a log.
Kakashi smirked at his students before turning to Tazuna with a serious gaze that made the old man flinch." Tazuna-san please give us a good explanation on why we were attacked by the demon brothers?"
Kakashi knew this would leave a headache.
They had just got off the boat after the Tazuna had guilt tripped them into completing the mission. It's not everyday someone tells you that their final hopes lay on whether or not you'll help them. So if someone tells you that the livelihood of an entire nation rest on a yes or no answer the choice is obvious if you had a single kind bone in your body. That and your villages reputation would suffer if you actually allowed the country to become hell.
They had just gotten off the boat that had ferried them through the lake and started to travel on foot again. Though attentive and some tension filled the air as they wandered the path in their silence. Naruto found the silence somewhat troubling as he preferred the noisier situations compared to the quiet. Just as the group had arrived to another smaller lake Naruto heard a rustling in the bushes and fired off a shuriken at. Everyone turned at the bush too.
Naruto ran up to the bush and discovered a," Rabbit huh." Naruto held the thing up by it's ears making Sakura sigh in relief before bopping the blond in the head." Don't go throwing ninja tools; seriously wasting them is such a pain," The pink haired girl reprimanded.
"But this is weird," Naruto said swinging the rabbit up and down. Sakura's eye twitched at the oblivious amount of abuse the rabbit was being inflicted in Naruto's hand. Sakura then did something she would become famously prone to doing…punching the crap out of Naruto.
The rabbit flew out of Naruto's hand into the forest where it ran off.
"OW, ow, ow, ow, ow, seriously though why was that rabbit's fur out of season?" Naruto asked rubbing his head with eyes tearing up from the pain.
Kakashi then realized it right away, the only way that the rabbits coat would be that color if it was owned by someone. He then noticed the whistling coming towards them.
"Get down," Kakashi exclaimed as he dragged Tazuna to the floor. Sakura and Sasuke also dropped down as a large broadsword shaped like a butcher knife with two sharpened circular cuts in the blades, one near the tip of the blade and another near the long hilt of the sword, flew over them.
Naruto just stood his ground making Kakashi almost shout at the boy. But Kakashi noticed it, the red glow coming out of Naruto's pupils. A loud metallic 'TWANG' sound was heard as the sword was deflected by some sort of force just a foot away from where Naruto was standing.
The sword stuck into a tree just then a tall muscular man with pale skin, short spiky black hair, brown eyes, thin eyebrows, wearing a bandage like a mask over the bottom half of his face, and his forehead protect sideways on his head. He had on dark grey baggy pants with the striped pattern and mimetic wrist-warmers extending up to his elbows, with matching leg-warmers, he wore no shirt but the belt of a sheath went diagonally down his chest.
It is assumed that this man was the swords owner.
"Well that was an interesting trick kid," the pale skinned man stated towards Naruto who seemed to have adopt a cold listless look not unlike his witch teacher. Kakashi focused on the man before recognizing the sword", the kubikirabocho… but that would make you Momochi Zabuza."
"heh.. Well, well, well, Kakashi of the Sharingan," Zabuza stated as he narrowed his sights on the other masked jonin level shinobi. Sasuke eyes just widened at the word sharingan. Naruto just glared at the missing nin for dismissing him.
"Guys defensive formation around Tazuna," Kakashi ordered as he reached for the side of his forehead protector that covered his eye.
The second Kakashi ordered his team they formed a three sided formation around Tazuna with kunai out in a defensive position. Naruto stood in front while Sakura flanked the left and Sasuke the right.
"Do you really think that's going to stop me," Zabuza taunted as he did an few hand signs.
"For this I'll have to give some conscious effort," Kakashi said as he uncovered his eye. The eye slowly open showing it to be red with three tomoes circling around the pupil.
Zabuza grunted as he and his sword disappear in a blur as suddenly appears on top of the lake with his sword strapped to his back.
"Careful everyone Zabuza is a master at the silent assassination style," Kakashi said narrowing his eyes.
"Hidden mist jutsu," Zabuza called out as a thick mist covered the area, obscuring everything in team seven's sights,
The tension was thick under the mist. Sasuke could barely see his team with the killer intent in the air was making everyone anxious.
Sasuke's breathe quickened as the odd tension ate at him making the feeling of anxiety and paranoia increase. Sakura was having trouble keeping her cool though she knew what she was choosing to do when she decided to be a kunoichi she never thought that she'd be facing something like this so early in her career. Naruto's face kept a calm expression, this level of tension was way less than what he was used to. Bernkastel always gave him a stronger feeling than this. The depth of that fear made his ability to think better under the pressure to improve just to survive.
"Eight choices," Zabuza's voice echoed around them," liver, lungs, spine, clavicle vein, jugular vein, brain, kidneys, heart."
Naruto's eyes narrowed into the mist before closing his eyes and remembering one of the most cruelest training exercises Bernkastel made him do and closed his eyes.
The tension got worse for Sasuke and Sakura, to the point that Sasuke was actually thinking about using the kunai in his hand to end his life just so the tension could go away.
"Guys don't worry I won't let my comrades down," Kakashi said before releasing his own chakra to dissipate some of the mist. Sasuke and Sakura sighed at the slight release of the tension.
'So the mist is laced with this guy's killer intent, eh,' Naruto thought as he stretched out his senses trying to feel this guys movements out. Naruto calmed his breathing as he felt Zabuza aiming to catch his team by surprise from the back. Naruto charged his chakra in the kunai that gained a slightly orange-red outline. His eyes snapped open as he threw the kunai pass Tazuna's shoulder nearly giving the old man a stroke.
Zabuza glared at Naruto as he blocked the kunai that had enough force to actually almost make him lose grip of his blade as he dug his heels on the ground as he was pushed back several feet.
The sound made Kakashi spring into action a with a kunai stabbing through Zabuza's throat. Kakashi's eyes narrowed as kunai slid in to simply almost as if it was - and the Zabuza burst into a puddle of water. That explained how Zabuza down so easil - and Kakashi was then bisected by the waist by the kubikirabocho.
Sakura and her team was shocked as she yelled ", Kakashi-sensei!"
Naruto just stared with hard wide eyes as the bisected parts of Kakashi's body collapsed into more water.
Zabuza's eyes widened in shock as he felt the kunai's blade on his neck. "Caught, you," Kakashi stated.
Sakura sighed in relief but Sasuke and Naruto just kept their eyes on Zabuza and Kakashi.
"Humph, fool hardy monkey," Said Zabuza as he dissolved into a puddle of water. Kakashi only had enough time to duck as another Zabuza, the real one, appeared behind him swinging the kubikirabocho to cut him again.
Before Kakashi could recover Zabuza stabbed his sword into the ground and used it as springboard to send the sensei of team seven flying into the lake. Effortlessly the man took his sword out of the ground dashing after the flying sensei to kill him before he could recover enough ground. But then stopped noticing the spikes the had been dropped between him and his target.
Zabuza only "ke'd" in annoyance as he jumped above the spikes and head first into the water of the lake Kakashi submerged in.
As Kakashi broke the surface he couldn't help but feel the heaviness of the water increase suddenly as he tried to gain his bearings. "Well I've got you now," stated Zabuza as he finished the final hand sign needed for his jutsu ", Water prison Jutsu."
Team seven could only watch as their sensei was captured in what appeared to be a large sphere of water. All in all Kakashi couldn't help but partially blame Naruto for getting them on this routine C-rank mission turned into a B OR A-RANKED LEVELED MISSION. No the boy could have just taken the calm route, but nooo it's too boring to do D-rank missions that GENIN were supposed to do, especially when they were still fresh out of the academy too.
The headache from the start was coming back again.
Naruto couldn't help but notice Kakashi's bored yet somehow menacing stare that promised some sort uncomfortable situations in the future.
But now wasn't the time to dwell on the fact that Kakashi was having some sort random thoughts on how to get make Naruto less Naruto and more shinobi. Zabuza had just gone through a whole speech on how team seven was just 'playing ninja' thoroughly pissing Naruto off.
Making your students kill off their classmates did sound like a good way to harden your students to become tougher in the shinobi world but its also a good way to mentally scar your shinobi into becoming paranoid, unsympathetic, sociopaths that can no longer function in normal society. When you look at it as the most ineffectual way in making good shinobi that aren't trained to think killing is the best way to go about a problem it really is lacking in intelligence.
Currently Naruto did the not so intelligent thing and charged at the water clone that Zabuza so graciously made to kill his team off.
The clone scoffed as Naruto charged with a kunai poised to stab. With almost no effort at all the clone grabbed Naruto by the head.
"Naruto!" Sakura yelled extremely alarmed, sure Naruto was an idiotic pain but he was hers and her team's idiotic pain. That and no one wanted to see their idiotic pain dead.
"Stupid kid," Zabuza stated as he slammed Naruto into the ground head first making a crater on the ground. There was a poof sound as the Naruto in the Zabuza clone's hand popped in a fit of smoke. The Zabuza clone's eyes widened in shock not noticing Naruto stabbing it in the back making it into a falling puddle.
"Sasuke, jutsu NOW," Naruto yelled at his teammate.
Immediately Sasuke performed the handsigns needed as he aimed at the real Zabuza with his ",Fire style: Fireball jutsu." With those words said Sasuke shot a five foot by five foot fireball heading straight towards Zabuza from his mouth.
Said missing-nin just finished processing the destruction of his clone as he saw a fireball heading straight at him.
Naruto reached into his pack and threw something at Sasuke, who caught it then smirked. Naruto then dashed just as the fireball was dispersed from Zabuza swinging his blade. Just at the end of his swing Naruto disappeared in a flock of red butterflies then appeared above Zabuza stabbing downward at the mans head only to be blocked by the flat side of Zabuza's kubikirabocho leaving his bare torso as a large target.
Sasuke saw his chance as he threw the windmill shuriken that Naruto had passed him for just seemed to just this moment. Sasuke scoffed at the idea that the dope had actually planned this entire scenario out. But still he had to admit (to himself and ONLY himself) it was somewhat impressive that the blond idiot could do all of this rather quick deduction on how to use the battle field in such a short time after their sensei got caught. Tricking the water clone with a clone Naruto replaced himself with then using some sort of odd stealth he stabbed the clone from the back with impressive skill causing it to disperse shocking the clone's owner, next he had actually called out at Sasuke almost as if knowing what would happen. Not just that Zabuza only crippled himself by holding Kakashi in place with the water prison jutsu now that the water clone had proven ineffective, sense Naruto dispersed it rather easily. With one of his hands busy and the other free to block even as a jonin there was only so much that could be done with one hand, massive restricted movements, and a volley of attacks coming from evenly skilled genin. Zabuza is so regretting underestimating these brats as he spotted the windmill shuriken speeding towards him with rather impressive torque.
"little bastards," Zabuza mumbled as he felt Naruto's weight still on his sword only to realize that the brat was actually using chakra to stick to his kubikirabocho to add more pounds to the swords own large weight. As the shuriken homed in on it's target Zabuza shocked everyone who wasn't Kakashi as he showed impressive bodily control he kept the blade balance over his head and jumped over the shuriken making it fly under him.
"No," Sakura shouted as the shuriken didn't connect with it's target.
The Naruto on Zabuza's blade and Sasuke smirked as a second Shuriken appeared flying towards Zabuza with as much speed as the first one.
Zabuza then glared hard as he swung his blade hard enough to send Naruto into a the lakes waters. Zabuza slashed down at the shuriken expecting the normal clash of metal on metal what he didn't expect was it to poof in a fit of smoke. "Huh," was all Zabuza said.
"Got you," Naruto said as he kicked Zabuza with his leg glowing a vibrant red. Zabuza's eyes widened from the amazing strength that kid had to actually make him move was way beyond anything a green genin could do. Zabuza already knew he had at least two bruised ribs at worst one or two cracks.
"Little brat," Zabuza said as he gained his bearings enough to swing his massive slab of a sword at Naruto's head. Just a inch from impacting his forehead a loud 'CLANG' rang through the area. Zabuza's eyes widened as they made contact with Naruto's, from the black pupils of the blonds eyes a red light permeated from them. Zabuza just stared for a bit trying to figure out just how the hell the blonde was doing that but then he noticed the movement of Kakashi coming from behind and jumped dodging what could have been a kunai to the back of his neck.
Without even a glance Kakashi gave an order to Naruto ", good job guys but it's time for me to end this before the momentums gone." Naruto nodded and dashed back to shore where his team awaited them.
Team 7 plus Tazuna watched as Kakashi mimicked Zabuza with disturbing accuracy. In the end Zabuza was blown back by his own jutsu that Kakashi had the courtesy to fire at him. But before Kakashi could give the final blow three senbon needles stuck into Zabuza's neck making him appear seemingly dead. This was standard knowledge for those was could notice or had some sort of connection around the village, mostly clans and few civilians.
There was sound of sandal landing on a tree just above the supposed corpse of Zabuza. There on a branch stood a strange hunter nin boy wearing a white mask with thin, curved eye-holes and a red wavy design in place of the mouth, as well as the Kirigakure symbol on the forehead, and moss green, striped turtle-neck sweater and a split skirt in matching color that reached down to the knees. On the outside of that, the nin wore a green blue short kimono with white edges, and around the waist was a green brown obi, in the same fabric as his sweater, with a fringed trail. Also the nin wore light brown platoon sandals with straps in the same color as his kimono and nail polish on fingernails and toenails in matching blue green color, The nin's long hair was gathered in a white bun holder tied with a green blue, while two locks of his hair fell loose framing his face, bound with metal hair cuffs at the ends. The nin also wore a black forehead protector with the symbol of his village Kirigakure.
A hunter nin are those that dispose of shinobi that hold secrets detrimental to the village the missing nin belonged to. These secrets were not just information of probable dealings the village had committed but also possible secrets that the body of the missing nin held and could be found through the corpse. When Bernkastel had told Naruto about them his first words about them were ",oh so that's what those guys did, I thought they were just some hidden guards in the village or something," that resulted in twenty-five hundred lashes on the back with a leather whip. Bernkastel temper was really pushed when they first started his training, so ridiculous punishments were the norm for their interactions.
Naruto hung back and observed the situation, Bernkastel had to quite literally beat the words OBSERVE BEFORE FLYING OFF THE HANDLE. After that punishment that he is so dreadfully trying not to remember.
Just as he finished his thought the hunter nin took Zabuza out of the area.
"huh that's weird," Naruto said loudly.
With a sigh Kakashi just asked knowing that it can't be good" care to elaborate Naruto on that comment Naruto?"
"Eh?" was the response he got from the blond.
" Sensei's asking what is so weird Naruto you idiot, " Sakura said making the blond boy plant the bottom of his fist to his palm in realization which made Sakura cover her face shaking her head. Sasuke just couldn't help but notice that for someone who she supposedly hated Sakura just knew how to get Naruto on track in a conversation. Now Sasuke just didn't know if it was disturbing or impressive that anyone could rein Naruto in as easily as Sakura could. Though its not like anyone could see through his poker face, a person could just stare at him all day and only get that he was annoyed at being stared at.
"Oh yea', um Kakashi-sensei don't hunter nin dispose of the body despite the situation the body is in," Naruto stated. Kakashi just froze as a headache just burst through his skull as the facts unfolded in front of him. "I mean if he just wanted proof of the kill he could of just taken the head and if he felt we were to young to see he could have just told the squeamish to turn away as he did the deed uhh are you okay, Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked.
Kakashi couldn't think for some reason his head was hurting so…badly…everything was going black. Hatake Kakashi fell down to the ground with a headache so bad he blacked out. Though he heard a voice that was just plain nostalgic.
"Kakashi."
"…Minato-sensei?" was the only response.
And the long wait is over, sorry I ended up underestimation my collages work and ended up noticing that I might flunk three of my classes so to catch up I had to throw all hobbies and play out the window.
I'll give you guys a new chapter sometime next month maybe ja ne for now.