Author: Okay, I keep getting questions of how long Naruto is going to be in denial. Truthfully he's going to try and deny the fox for a while. I mean how would you feel if you found out you had some giant disaster inside you? I mean realistically, wouldn't you be scared? Naruto is in denial because he's too afraid to admit he has it inside him, but don't worry, he can't deny it forever.

Naruto: Uh what was that DarkFox?

Author: Nothing to worry your pretty little head.

Naruto: Don't insult me, just because I have blond hair doesn't mean I'm stupid. I know you don't want me to be in denial anymore, but isn't that what makes this story a bit more unique?

Author: Yeah, just so you readers know, I hadn't seen anyone who had Naruto try and deny Kyuubi's existence within him and if someone had then I hadn't seen it. Now, disclaimer!

Naruto: Fine, she doesn't own me... you know this. Kishimoto own us... you know this too. Now on with the story!

Chapter 9: Mission Complete!

"Arf! Arf!"

"Wah!" why does this always happen? I wake up and see Akamaru right in my face!

"Ha, ha, ha, that just never gets old." I heard Dog Boy laughing.

I growled at the two of them, "Stop that! One of these days Akamaru is going to be tempted to pee on me and if that day ever comes I'm going to act like Sakura and punch the living daylights out of you!"

This only served to make him laugh even harder to the point he was on the floor clutching his stomach and I just realized how stupid it sounded when I said that… 'act like Sakura'… she's very violent but I just stated I was going to act like a freaking fan girl! Now my face is as red as Hinata's when she's embarrassed.

"Alright… if that's how you want to play…" I smirked as an idea popped into my head and I slowly walked out of the room while Dog Boy continually laughed his tail off, I ignored Tazuna, Tsunami and Inari's welcome… well not ignored completely because this is the first time I've seen them so happy and cheerful, so I gave them a friendly wave before I grabbed a random bucket, filled it with ice cold water while snickering.

"Uh Naruto what are you doing?" Inari asked me curiously.

I just kept snickering and said, "Let's just say I'm about to give someone a very rude awakening."

Inari blinked as I finished filling the bucket with the water and lifted it but before I walked out Inari stopped me.

"Wait Naruto… are you going to prank Kiba?"

"Yup, he deserves it."

"Well then allow me to help you, consider it as repayment for helping us." Inari winked and I smirked, oh this is going to be good.

Weapons ready? Check. Filled with ammo? Check. My partner? Check. The unsuspecting target in his room? Double check.

"Okay Inari, we only got one shot at this." I said quietly readying my new weapon Inari gave to me just for this specific battle.

"I'm ready when you are." he said back also readying his own weapon.

I slowly opened the door, Kiba and Akamaru are still in there.

"Well we got him good huh Akamaru?"

"Arf!"

"Huh? That smell… are Naruto and Inari near?"

Crap! I forgot about Kiba's nose, well it's now or never! I bust into his room with a big smile on my face and held the big water gun, Dog Boy's eyes were so wide it looked like they would pop right out.

"Hello Kiba… I'm BAAAACK!" and with that I shot out my water gun at him and Inari joined in, both of us were laughing while Kiba and Akamaru along with everything else in the room were getting soaked. Dog Boy was screaming at us to stop it but it wasn't until we ran out of water ammo did we stop and boy was he mad.

"Naruto… you better run." he growled a warning.

"RETREAT!" I grabbed Inari's hand and both of us ran out of the room with the barking Dog Boy and Akamaru behind us, we were all laughing including the soaked canines.

We ran out of the house before we caused too much destruction and ran right into Kakashi-sensei! All of us fell and piled on each other… ouch.

"Well I'm glad to see you're all getting along with each other." Sensei eye smiled at us while reading that dirty book of his.

"Oh good morning sensei." I said politely after scrambling up to my feet.

"Don't act all polite after you and your little partner nearly drowned me and Akamaru!" Kiba growled.

"Well you deserved it!" I snapped back.

"Sic him Akamaru!" he shouted.

The little white demon dog jumped and pounced on my face! I fell down as he gave him his lick attack! I heard everyone laughing including Inari and Kakashi-sensei! The traitors… wait, I know Akamaru's weak spot. I grinned as I began scratching his ear and he stopped. Akamaru began to look at me and Kiba as if torn between continuing his lick attack or just let me scratch him and obviously he chose the latter.

"Hey! You little traitor!" Kiba laughed.

I petted Akamaru as I sat up smiling, "Guess he likes me more."

"Ha! You wish!"

Then sensei spoke up, "Anyway, Zabuza and Haku will be leaving soon and so will we once the bridge is finished, perhaps before they go you could learn a thing or two from them if they're still willing to teach."

Being able to learn how to throw a weapon with precise aim as well as being able to navigate when your sight is reduced will come in very handy in the future.

Hinata came out of the house and shook her head with a smile she had saw the whole thing with me, Kiba, Akamaru and Inari. Inari was laughing like a real kid now, it made me happy and proud I was able to snap him out of that miserable trance he had been in for a long time.

Anyway I won't bore you with the details but Haku taught us first.

"Even though you use kunais instead of senbons like I do you must still aim them carefully, they're not as difficult to handle as something as thin as needles so you should be able to pick it up fairly quickly."

So with our kunais we practiced by trying to hit the small berries on the bushes, and let me tell you it was HARD AS HECK for me to aim just right. It's not that I'm bad at aiming it's just having to hit a small or moving target proves to be quite difficult, even Kiba couldn't seem to aim at the tiny fruits. Hinata had the easiest time out of the three of us because of her Byakugan but even then she struggled, it just proves that precise aim takes years of practice.

After an hour with this lesson we weren't that much better but it was Zabuza's turn to teach us.

"When your opponent's vision is reduced they would most likely begin to panic or become frustrated and that makes them easy targets, however most likely your vision will get reduced as well so it's vital you learn how to be able to use your other senses to be able to navigate through. Hidden Mist Jutsu!"

Zabuza covered the area with thick mist it was hard to see. "Now see if you can find me or one of my Water Clones." he said.

Now this is where I'm the weakest… Kiba and Akamaru got their strong sense of smell and Hinata has her Byakugan, but me? What do I have? Nothing! At least not for something like this. At first I was pretty jealous of my other two teammates but then I figured this could help make me stronger because there may be a time when the enemy uses a special smoke bomb that negates Kiba or Akamaru's sense of smell or Hinata's Byakugan can't see through it.

Well after about another hour I finally found Zabuza and I found the real one while Hinata and Kiba found his other two clones about half the time it took me to find him… I've got a lot of work to do.

"Impressive, you've managed to find me." Zabuza said to me and I looked up at him surprised.

"Not really, it took me much longer to find you than my other teammates." I sighed.

"The girl is a Hyuuga and the boy is an Inuzuka with a nin-hound, to be honest those two have an unfair advantage, however there may come a time when they can't use what they rely on to find their targets and that's where you come in, just keep practicing until you can find your way without having to rely on your eyes, when you do that you'll be able to make it to my Bingo Book in no time."

That's… kind of weird hearing a compliment from Zabuza since he tried to kill us yesterday, but still I had the same thought too and it feels even better when someone else says it and I couldn't help but smile as Zabuza release the mist Jutsu.

Well over the course of the next few days, Zabuza and Haku finally left, where did they go I don't know but hopefully they won't go on anymore assassinations, maybe, maybe not, but something tells me they're not willing to work for someone like Gatou ever again.

We mostly watch Tazuna and his workers finish up with the bridge but to help make it go faster I walked up to Tazuna with an idea.

"Hey Tazuna I think I know of a way to help with the bridge." I said.

"Hm? So how are you going to do it?" he asked curiously, after watching our battle on the bridge he now has respect for me and my team.

"With the power of Shadow Clones." I smiled and instantly created over a hundred Shadow Clones.

"So what do you need help with?" they asked.

Tazuna and the other workers were pretty shocked at this before they smiled, "Alright, this should make the bridge finish some time tomorrow."

"Hey! Let us help too! I'm not going to let Naruto take all the credit." Dog Boy smirked as Akamaru barked.

"I can help too." Hinata said softly.

Sensei didn't say anything but he was watching us as if he was… uh… proud? Intrigued? I don't know, he's very hard to read most of the time, but I think he approves of what we're doing.

Well after a long day of hard labor, even with my Shadow Clones, we were all very tired but at least the bridge is finally finished. Inari came a few times to watch and bring refreshments, he's gotten a lot brighter now.

And now it was time to head back to the Leaf Village, finally… as nice as it was here especially since we were regarded as heroes, I missed home.

Tazuna gave a speech to the village, saying that we should never give up hope and always fight for what's their's so the next time someone like Gatou tries to take over again they'll be thrown off the island before they get the chance to mess everything up and everyone cheered loudly as he cut the ribbon for the bridge and guess what? We're going to be the first ones to cross it! How cool is that?

"Well I'd say this C turned A-rank mission is complete and a success." Kakashi-sensei smiled under his mask.

"Well Naruto… it's too bad you can't stay anymore." Inari spoke up to me.

"Yeah, we had fun together while it lasted." I smiled.

Then Inari's eyes started to leak, "Oh dang it, I promised myself I wouldn't cry anymore!"

"It's fine to cry when you're happy." I said trying to hold back my own tears.

"I can see it! You're about to cry too!"

"You cry first!"

And with that both of us started tearing up and I didn't even care when Kiba just snickered, "What a crybaby."

Hinata on the other hand gently pat my shoulder, "Oh Naruto…"

So I quickly dried my eyes and Inari did the same and I gave him the thumps-up, "Well, see ya later and good luck."

"You too." he said giving me his own thumps-up.

"Because you brought back the spirit that was long lost to this place we shall name this The Great Naruto Bridge." Tazuna suddenly announced that made me freeze for a few seconds… did I hear him right?

I was so use to being treated like a plague back home that it felt very strange but very good that they regarded me as such a hero they would name the bridge after me. I beamed at him as we began walking down the bridge waving our final good-byes to them, I'm going to miss this place.

"Kakashi-sensei, I know Zabuza and Haku were our enemies but… you know I can't help but like them." I said out of the blue but I couldn't help thinking about them and the few yet useful things they taught us.

"I see… well Naruto I can't help but like them too." Sensei eye smiled.

"Yeah, they're not so bad even when they did try to kill us not that long ago." Dog Boy snickered as Akamaru yipped from his chest jacket.

Hinata smiled, "They never really intended to hurt anyone after all."

I thought that was odd especially for someone with a reputation like Zabuza, but I think he secretly regretted killing so many people, that and Haku probably rubbed off on him, I don't know for sure but hey at least we got out alive and the only casualties were the bad guys so it's all good. I looked up at the bright sky, the sun shining down on the Land of Waves with new light and hope as we walked on the bridge named after me.

I hope someday I could live up to that name and become a real hero for people to look up to, maybe someday… but for now I want to eat some long awaited Ichiraku's ramen. Can't wait to tell Iruka-sensei about all this, he'll probably freak out.

Author: And that wraps up the Land of Waves arc and the tutorial, starting next chapter we get to the real game. I know this was a short chapter, but it was mostly just for intermission. I'm pretty sure they didn't go home right away after their epic battle with Haku and Zabuza.

Naruto: Also, it's a heck of a lot faster when you have hundreds of clones helping you build the bridge.

Author: That's true and the water gun fight was pretty random, but I thought it was funny.

Naruto: Well we hope you guys enjoyed the end of the arc and we will soon be moving on the Chuunin Exam arc, but we'll be having a few missions before then.

Author: Yeah, the Chuunin Exam doesn't start for a few weeks so this will give Naruto and his team the chance to do some real missions after that C turned A rank one.

Naruto: Again, sorry for the short chapter, but this was the ending of the tutorial, not much going on really after the big fight. So until next time everyone... *we used kunai to cut you from the tree we tied you on and quickly used the Body Flicker to disappear before you could try to get us arrested*