Tsunami answered the door by slowly pulling it open. It looked like Samson from the first crew, but that could be a Shinobi trick. Shinobi always lie Tsunami-chan the voice of her mother rang in her ears as she pulled the door open.
In an instant the man was on the ground, the young blond crouching on his back, a sharp knife, no a Kunai as they called it, was placed softly on Samson's throat.
"We nearly thought you were Samson, you know. Whomever you are, you're good" The tall jonin with silver hair and a single eye spoke to the man on the floor.
Poof, with an explosion of smoke, 'Samson' was gone, in his place a single rock with a red tag on it.
"Shit!" Naruto yelled as he grabbed the rock with an explosive note attached, already burning, and throwing it as hard as he could out the still open front door.
Babooom! The resulting explosion rocked the front of the house, as Kakashi covered Tazuna and Tsunami with his body, and Naruto shielded himself from the doorway.
Naruto lowered his now shrapnel pierced forearms, and stared past the crater in the front lawn toward the trees that marked the edge of the property. Standing there leaning against a tall pine was a shinobi. Wearing a black cloak, hood down, a smiling mask sitting on his face, he casually tossed a large knife up into the air before catching it again.
Naruto growled, as he slowly fell into a crouch his kunai at the ready, knowing that this was an enemy. The masked shinobi cocked his head, then nodded. Naruto exploded forward, Kakashi's words of warning falling on deaf ears. With a blur of movement, Naruto was pinned to the ruins of the porch by the same knife that the shinobi was playing with.
"AHHH" Naruto screamed as his forward momentum was halted by a single piece of steel slamming itself deep into his left shoulder and pinning him to the porch. That shouldn't be possible! Naruto's eyes widened as the shinobi appeared, and in his hand was another knife exactly the same as the one embedded in his shoulder.
He is fast, strong and dangerous. Kakashi lifted his forehead protector to show off his Sharingan eye, as he prepared himself for battle.
"Keep your children on leashes if you don't want them dying Copy-Cat. I'm only here to deliver a warning." The masked man's voice lashed out like a whip, cutting through the tensioned air.
"You fucker! You tried to kill us!" Naruto snarled as he tried to wiggle his way free from the knife.
"If I wanted you dead kid, I'd have put that knife through your skull. And not even Copy-Cat Kakashi would have been able to stop me. So shut up, and let the adults speak." The masked man lashed his left foot out and slammed it into the blonde's chin.
"Speak fast, before I put my Raikiri through your heart." Kakashi growled.
"Fine. I have orders from Gato to kill the bridge builder after the bridge is finished, and to hold it for him. I am fine with doing that. What I am not fine with… is that I am supposed to kidnap her now." The masked man points at Tsunami. "The shrimp thinks she is…attractive, and will make him money. However, Raikage-sama would murder me if I took that order. I'd also like to avoid sparking a war if possible, so I'm telling you now. Leave little Leaves, before I am forced to cut you down. Do not make me kill children Copy-Cat. Please." The masked man ducks as a second Kakashi appears behind him, his left hand surrounded by lightning piercing the air where his heart was a few moments ago. A back swift kick, and the clone explodes into smoke, and the masked man darts towards the trees as Kakashi crouches beside the still pinned Naruto.
"Sakura! Sai! Let him through now! He will cut through if he has to!" Kakashi ordered into seemingly empty air. A few moments latter Sai appeared carrying his teammate who was clutching her left leg.
"He swiped Sakura as he passed, it's not deep but it did hinder her movements so we couldn't pursue." Sai dutifully reported.
Kakashi looked down at the knife that was still holding his student down. With a single swift motion, he yanked it free. His eyes widened as he looked at the blade.
"Shit"
"What is it Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto groaned as he sat up, his shoulder steaming as it swiftly knit itself back into one piece.
"This knife belongs to one man, who I'm not entirely sure we could beat. It belongs to the SwordBreaker Huun."
"Who is that Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked confused. Who could be that strong to scare Kakashi-sensei?
"History after we secure the target, Sakura, bunker, Sai, I want traps, Naruto, sentries. Cardinal points, and patrols. Go."
"Yes sensei!"
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Hiruzen puffed his pipe and thought. He thought of many things, and of many futures. Slowly he pulled out a scroll, his brush set, and he began writing.
It has been a long time has it not? Yet I fear the time is slowly coming. It is going to be free soon, I can feel it inside my brittle bones. Soon the world will change, and the time of my generation will end. So that is why I am writing. I will explain my actions of this past decade, and show you that I am not the weak senile old man that Danzo believes me to be. It all started with the death of Minato, and the sealing of the fox….
For well over two hours Hiruzen wrote his letter, until the sun had set on his village, and the nightly patrol began its rounds. Just as he signed the scroll and rolled it up, the door way to his office opened.
"Hiruzen… it isn't dead, but I learned much…" with a thud Danzo collapsed onto the floor, his left shoulder bleeding profusely onto the carpet.
"My work is never done." The old shinobi crouched by Danzo's side and his hands started to glow green.
"You are lucky, Danzo, that I took lessons from my student in the healing arts. I am not as good as she, or any doctor in the hospital, but I am good enough to keep you alive until you reach them."
"My doctors will take care of me, I must report however."
"You always was a stubborn old goat, Danzo. Fine, report." Sarutobi ordered as he closed the wound slowly.
"Saud is extremely dangerous. I took him by surprise, and he still managed to kill two jonin level shinobi, and take my arm. It was a battle that was easily one sided, I kept him at range for the majority, and he countered with high pressure Water jutsu. For the first time since Sensei, my wind jutsu couldn't cut through a water jutsu of a lower level."
"So extremely high water affinity, what else?"
"He was in control; it was not a beast but a monster I was fighting. It was different than last time. The last time I fought him, he was more wild, less coordinated, and I actually wounded him. I thought anyway. I pierced his chest the last time, and tore off my arm before letting me go."
"The arm you worked with him to create?" Sarutobi raised a single eyebrow. Silence met his question before he growled "I asked a question. Answer it."
"Yes, that was ripped away from me effortlessly, while my hand was in his fucking chest!" Danzo finally snapped.
"If I had known you had fought him before and didn't have that arm, I wouldn't have sent you." Sarutobi calmly stated while looking in Danzo's remaining eye.
"You thought I could win? How did you know I had that anyway Hiruzen?"
"Lord Shodai's cells are not just locked away Danzo. The only one with access is me, and me alone. Orochimaru did experiments on civilians without my consent, that is why he was banished, what he did with your arm, and the donated Sharingan of the Uchiha clan was known by me. In fact, there was a failsafe that I ensured was included. You never could use Wood Release could you Danzo?" Sarutobi smirked at the shocked eye of his oldest comrade.
"Yes, Danzo, there is not a single thing in this village that I don't know about." Sarutobi answered the thoughts that were running through Danzo's mind.
"Anything else to report?" Sarutobi asked.
"Not to report, I do have a plan of action however." Danzo replied.
"Elaborate."
"Train Naruto Uzumaki in wind release, and possibly Hatake in Lightning release. Both of them have stronger affinities than I in the village, and while Uzumaki has the beast inside him, he has more chakra than both of us. Hatake has the sharingan thus can keep up with the Shade's movements. Team seven would be the best choice for combat."
"I see, valid points. However, two main issues. One, the only ones capable of training Naruto in wind release are you and my son. The second issue is the larger one. Kakashi-kun can't learn any more lightning release. His current techniques are at their peak, and the only lightning techniques or styles that he does not know are in Kumo. I am not going to send one of my strongest jonin to Kumo to steal techniques, nor will I send any one. There is not a reasonable success rate for such a mission."
"May I suggest a compromise? Have Asuma train him until the Chunin exams in three months. With clones, he should be able to get the basics down. I will take him during the month long training after the second exam, should he make it. That way you can keep an "eye" on me while you do it." Danzo stated.
"And what if I want to train him? It is my right after all." A voice spoke from the window.
"He knows Kage Bushin Lord Jiraiya, he can be trained by us both." Danzo spoke softly.
"He will be trained by me Danzo. And If I find out that you turned him into a killing machine for your own ends, I will bath this village in the blood from your carcass, and Sensei, you know what will happen if you allow it." Jiraiya then flooded the room with killer intent. One by one, the Anbu that were guarding the Hokage dropped from their hiding places, Danzo sank to his knees clenching his chest, and Sarutobi trembled.
"Jiraiya-kun! Enough the point has been made!" Sarutobi yelled as the first of the ANBU started to convulse.
The intent disappeared, and the man by the window glared. "I will train him. And that's final. I don't care if you do so as well Danzo, but keep my warning in mind." Jiraiya vaulted out of the window after his statement.
"Well you heard my student Danzo, you will train a clone, and Jiraiya will train him as well. Now get out."
"Yes Hokage-sama."
As the door shut with a click, the God of Shinobi smiled. All according to plan.
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"First, you must understand what made the Third Shinobi World War different. For the first time, it was every Village for themselves. While Sand started the conflict, by an invasive search for their Third Kazekage, Kumo and Mist did their part as well. They attacked our allies the Uzumaki. We were having debates at the time, on if to engage, and then we get the message that Uzu is under attack. It took us two days to get there, and by that time it was a blood bath. The Uzu village was a wasteland, but the armies that the two nations attacked with were not without casualties. It took less than four hours for the Leaf to enter the war after we found the village. The entire world was at war, and legends would be made. " Kakashi took a breath as he gazed at his spell bound audience. Tazuna seemed sad, and Tsunami was holding Inari as his genin sat against the walls of the bunker Sakura formed with Earth Grand Wall rush.
"In the early years of the war, Sensei took us, still as genin, into the line. We were to grab info from the line, and return it to the village. It was then that we saw it. At the line was a battle, Mist verses Kumo. Two of the Swordsmen of the Mist were attacking the Raikage who was doing battle with the Mizukage. We of the Leaf were shocked when two genin attacked the Swordsmen each holding a knife. We were even more shocked when they parried the attack at the Raikage's back. Huun and his brother Jin were knocked way. Yet they kept getting up, and interrupting. Finally the battle between the Kage stopped, and they both watched as these genin stopped two of the Swordsmen. That is until Kurira, who wielded the Nuibari, killed Jin after a failed parry. Huun and Juzo stopped their battle, and watched as Jin fell to his death, still bleeding. Huun jumped after him, leaving the Raikage to fend for himself. Or so we thought. Kurira attacked the Raikage hoping to take advantage and it took Juzo blocking the attack. Huun had attacked with both knives this time, and was according sensei, a "Darvish Specialist". He specialized in using special knives called Darvishes. Naruto you are intimately familiar with them," Kakashi nodded to the genin who held his shoulder. "We watched this genin hold off both the Swordsmen, and then… the unthinkable happened. Juzo's Kubikiribocho, snapped from a special parry done by Huun, it was his blade breaking that allowed Huun to kill Kurira, and give him the name SwordBreaker Huun. Juzo grabbed the Nuibari, the rest of the kubikiribocho, and the Mizukage who was losing against the Raikage slowly, and retreated. "
"Even as a genin that guy was strong!" Sakura exclaimed.
"No, as a genin he had an advantage. We found out later via more encounters with Huun that he was an extremely gifted sensor. His brother was a great sensor as well, but was fighting the wrong shinobi. Kurira was the first, and to my knowledge, only sensor to have wielded one of the Swords of the Mist, so Jin was found out, and he died because of it. Huun was also faster than his brother, so he was able to hide it slightly better." Kakashi explained.
"What does sensing have to do with fighting on that level sensei?" Sai asked.
"Sensing, like what Naruto can do, is the ability to find locations. In a squad a sensor is the eyes and ears of the team. What Huun can do is using that same ability predict action." Kakashi stated.
"Jiji said it was similar to what a well-trained Byakugan is capable of. They don't have the same level of precognition as the Sharingan, but they are able to tense muscles in response." Naruto replied.
"I didn't know that. I'll have to talk to Hokage-sama." Kakashi muttered.
"Do you think we can complete the mission Sensei?" Sakura asked.
"Honestly? Yes, but doing so just became much more difficult." Kakashi replied.
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Huun sat on a branch overlooking the village that Gato took over in his greed. Lightly he tossed the knife in his hand up and down, its silver blade flashing in the moonlight.
For the first time since his brother, he found someone who sensed him coming. Without a dojutsu nonetheless! A smile stretched across his face under his smiling mask. Oh this mission just became fun! Is he another legend in the making? Or is he just another stepping stone? Ohh this is exciting!
Slowly he took off his mask, and stared at the full moon. "You know brother… it's been twenty-two years now. For the first time, I allowed another to hold your knife. Does that mean anything to you? Or nah? I remember what you said..." He replaced his mask, pocketed his knife and Shunshined to the middle of the village.
Flipping his hood up quickly he darted to the taxation house. He slammed his fist into the stomach of the largest thug guarding the door. As the man folded up nearly in half, he snapped a kick to each side, hitting each of the rushing thugs. He strolled forward, and entered the building. As the door shut, the night was silent once more.
Three hours later, the village would wake up to a massive explosion, and every house would be full of smiling children. They would eat like kings for a while now.
Huun stood at attention as the midget in front of him paced and yelled. "They took all the food in the fucking building, then BLEW IT UP! All the money, MY MONEY, gone! Huun what are you going to do about it?!"
"Nothing Gato"
"What did you just fucking say?! NOTHING? Why the fuck not?!" The spittle from the midget splattered on Huun's mask. His hand darted forward, and grabbed Gato by the throat.
"I'm not going to do a fucking thing you little cockroach, because I told you what was going to happen. You have pushed these people to the point that they will do anything to fucking eat. You want a country fine, this mission just became S rank. I demand 20 million upfront."
Gato paled. "The Raikage said you are to obey me! You are here on an A rank only! And you are to be my security enforcement until your contract is up!"
"The Raikage also stated that my contract was for three months. I have spent the last two months ensuring your wellbeing. Now you are asking me to abandon that mission, and to conquer this country for you. As I said before you little cockroach. You want a country; I'll get you a country. For 20 million up front." Huun stated before throwing Gato back into his chair. 'I guarantee you won't keep your fucking country. Because as soon as you have it, I'll kill you.'
The shinobi began to walk out. He was stopped by Gato's voice. "Wait! You want 20 million?! Fine! You got it! Now I want my fucking country!"
"Pleasure doing business with you Gato."
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Author's Notes
Well y'all its come to that time of year again. Finals. I'm a college student and my classes do come before this. Im sorry but my updates are going to be sparse, as I gear towards the end of my classes. This chapter was not Beta'd since I spur of the moment wrote it. If there is a person available 24/7 who would like to beta please let me know. Hope you all enjoyed the chapter!
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