Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Jurassic Park.

AN: Only one chapter today as I was busy and this one is almost twice as long as the other chapters. So Kakashi's a stricter teacher in this because of how much he cares for Naruto. He wants to give her the best possible chance he can for her to be a successful Shinobi. So when it comes to her training, -and therefore her teammates since he doesn't wanna show favoritism- he gets kinda tough lovey. And holy crap, Kakashi talked a LOT this chapter.

WARNING THIS PARTS A RANT ON GRAVITY SEALS AND MY PERSONAL OPINION ON HOW MOST PEOPLE DEPICT THEM- So gravity seals are something a lot of people use in fanfics and I'm not saying it's bad, in using it here. However what bugs me are some people's explanations of how the gravity seal works. Many people say it increases the gravity the users under, like physically increase the gravity on one's body, and actually changing their weight. Now ignoring the repercussions of the gravity itself, I find the weight thing annoying. Sure there are people like the Akimichi, and that's fine and dandy, but when the gravity seals at say, level ten? With Shinobi who hop from tree to tree, and are on rooftops often? Let me put it this way, I looked it up and in Shippuden, Naruto weighs 112 lbs (that doesn't sound correct to me, but that doesn't matter). The idea of the gravity seal is that each level increases the gravity on the user, level 1 has normal gravity, level two has gravity x2 , level the gravity x3, etc. So if you take Naruto's weight and put it at say, the level ten from earlier, I think you can figure it out, but incase you can't, physically increasing Naruto's weight by ten times would make him 1,120 lbs. Not good for the tree traveling, rooftop running Shinobi. Like I said sure their are Shinobi like the Akimichi, but I don't think any of them weigh that much. Anyway that's just my opinion, I don't wanna hear anyone say I'm over thinking it, I'm aware I probably am. And also this rant wasn't about the gravity seal itself, but how some people say it works. So my gravity seal doesn't actually increase the gravity on someone, (nor their weight) it just strains the body as though it's under increased gravity.

RANT OVER

Naruto was getting a mission with her teammates yet again. They'd been doing D-Ranks for awhile, and she thought they were incredibly boring. She didn't really understand why they had the Shinobi, genin or no, do them. They could just have the academy students do them with the fact they were nothing more than chores, well she supposed the academy students probably couldn't handle that demon cat Tora. She'd said as much to Hiruzen, and he'd looked rather thoughtful at the idea, so she wondered if who did D-Ranks was going to change soon.

When her team wasn't doing missions, Kakashi was putting them through a brutal training regiment. She wasn't complaining though, they were getting stronger at an incredibly fast pace because of it. She'd even gotten Kakashi's permission to apply gravity seals to herself and her teammates. She'd learned them a little while back and had been dying to try them out. This, along with their training regiment often left them all very exhausted, but pleased, especially Sasuke. Currently she was up to level four, Sasuke was only a couple days away from Kakashi clearing him to up to level four with her, and Kiba was only a bit behind Sasuke. Sasuke had to wait for Kakashi's ok, because it had been a rule he insisted on, he didn't want one of them hurting themselves by thinking they were ready to up the seal when they weren't.

Naruto was abruptly pulled from her thoughts by Kiba losing his temper and yelling, "No! No, no, no, no, no! I won't do another one of those stupid D-Ranks!" at this point Kiba turned to Kakashi and started begging, "Please, please, please, Kakashi-Sensei. We've been training really hard, and I can't take another of these stupid D-Ranks! Please get us a C-Rank!"

Kakashi looked at him in amusement for a moment before glancing at first Sasuke, then her. Seeing the way they were both staring at him, Kakashi sighed before saying, "Well, I suppose you have been training incredibly hard. Oh, very well. Hokage-Sama I would like to request a C-Rank for my team please."

Hiruzen had looked amused at Kiba's outburst, but grew serious at Kakashi's request. He eyed them for a moment before asking, "Are you sure they're ready Kakashi? It's only been 2 months since their graduation."

"Hokage-Sama, I've been training them so hard, they've been ready for two weeks at least."

"Very well if your sure. I have a mission perfect for your team right here." Then looking at a Shinobi standing at the door to the client waiting room, "Bring in Tazuna."

The Shinobi bowed his head before disappearing into the room. A few moments later he emerged and moved back to his previous position beside the door, revealing an older man with a bottle of sake who eyed them for a moment before asking, "These brats are supposed to guard me? They look like they couldn't even defend themselves, much less another person. Especially the short blonde one."

Naruto, rather than looking offended, smiled at him rather sweetly and said, "Appearances can be incredibly deceiving. Especially when dealing with Shinobi. I could break you as easily as you'd snap a twig."

Tazuna looked rather scared of her, but that might have been because she'd purposely showered her kunai sharp teeth when she smiled, causing the grin to look more bloodthirsty than sweet.

Kakashi watched the proceedings before telling Tazuna, unknowingly predicting part of the mission, "As a C-Rank we should only be facing bandits and the like, however I'm confident my students could take on some lower class missing nin at this point. So I'd very much appreciate it if you didn't insult their skills."

Tazuna merely hesitantly nodded before Kakashi straightened, and added, "Team 7 you're to gather your mission supplies, and meet me and Tazuna at the gate in 45 minutes. Do not be late." he said the last part with a stern look, then after they straightened and nodded, gave Tazuna and the Hokage a nod before Shunshining away.

45 minutes later Naruto saw Kakashi walking up to them with Tazuna, and straightened, causing her teammates to turn to see what she was looking at, and mirror her movements.

Kakashi looked at them over his book and said, "If your all ready, -and you better not have come to the gate unprepared considering 45 minutes was more than enough time to get everything you need- then let's head out."

After walking for about half an hour all the Shinobi noticed a puddle, more specifically a puddle that shouldn't be there since it hadn't rained in a week. Even Kiba, who wouldn't have noticed until Akamaru told him before he started training with Kakashi, noticed it. There's no way he wouldn't since Kakashi had made sure he put them through observation training. Something that ranged from going to a tea shop in the market and having to right down observational reports on anyone Kakashi pointed out, to following a route through their training grounds section of forest that was filled with traps, differing greatly from extremely obvious to cleverly hidden. Setting traps on a route you know your target was taking wasn't uncommon for Shinobi after all, and you never knew when reading someone as untrustworthy would save your life.

So they all noticed the puddle and subtlety prepared themselves. Which ment that when the demon brothers surged out of hiding when Kakashi passed, instead of meeting unprepared, caught off guard Genin as they thought they would, they instead had Naruto already jumping on top of one, pinning his arms to the ground with her knees, and slamming the blunt loop at one end of a kunai into his head, knocking him out. The other only a few seconds after had Sasuke ramming his knee into his gut, then planting that foot back on the ground, and kicking him in the side of the head when he doubled over, making him join his brother in unconsciousness. The rather pitiful 'fight' was over in less than a minute, and should really be called a beat down instead of a fight. The Genin didn't even realize their opponents where Chunin, low-Chunin admittedly, but Chunin nonetheless. After the two were out the genin tied them up.

After surveying the two enemy's, and making sure his students and Tazuna where ok, Kakashi turned to Tazuna, and with a pleasant eye smile asked, "So Tazuna, do you want to explain to me why this mission that was supposed to be a C-Rank is not, and is at least a B-Rank?"

Tazuna looked nervous for a minute before spilling everything about Gato and what he'd done to wave finishing with, "My bridge will connect the mainland to our little island and will severely weaken, if not outright break Gato's stranglehold on Wave. I understand if you wanna abandon me for lying about the mission, but Gato's hold means that the people of my country could only scrounge up the money for a C-Rank."

Kakashi looked thoughtful for a moment before, "Your lucky that the Hokage is a rather understanding man. If you pulled this with one of the other countries they'd probably not only abandon the mission, but would probably refuse any mission requests from your country on principle. And you were incorrect about one thing. While a village won't except a mission from an individual if they don't have the money, in the rare case of a mission being requested by a county, a Shinobi village will except a mission in advance. This is because it's a much harder for a county to try and rip us off, plus if they refuse to pay later remembering a country so you can refuse mission requests is, for obvious reasons, much easier. That being said, I was only going to intervene in this mission if you guys were struggling with it, otherwise I was only going to observe you kids. However if I actively participate we can handle this mission, if you kids wanna continue. Normally we'd just turn back, explain what was going on to the Hokage, let him set up a new mission contract with Wave using Tazuna as it's representative, and he'd send a higher ranked team. However you kids need to learn to adjust when a missions rank goes up sometime, as we can't always pull out and sometimes are forced to complete a mission we may not be prepared for. Admittedly most Jonin Sensei wouldn't teach this practical lesson on your first real mission, but you know I've always been rather sink or swim with you kids. I will however be nice enough to let you kids pull out if you want."

Naruto gave Kakashi a deadpan look and replied, "Ignoring the fact I don't want to abandon Wave to fend for themselves, we kinda can't pull out if your turning this into a practical lesson on adapting to sudden changes on a mission. That would be all but saying we couldn't handle missions yet, and then you wouldn't let us take another C-Rank for a month, if we were lucky!"

The other two nodded in agreement before Sasuke added, "Exactly, plus if your going to actively help Kakashi-Sensei, this should be much easier than if we were trying to do it ourselves."

With that decided Kakashi summoned Pakkun and sent a massage back to the ANBU about the capture of two Mizu missing nin. Since they were so close to Konoha and neither the ANBU nor Pakkun would be slowed by a civilian, they waited to assure the missing nin wouldn't escape. Within 3 minutes three ANBU appeared and took the two away. With that team 7 departed.

Even though they were in a boat Naruto was keeping her senses sharp for a enemy ambush, the thick mist would be a great spot to attack them, and since Kakashi had taught them both tree and water walking, she knew it was entirely a possibility they'd be attacked out in the water. However they arrived to the mainland without indecent. 20 minutes later she threw a kunai into some bushes she saw some movement from, causing her teammates to all draw kunai and ready themselves. After signaling Sasuke to move to an appropriate distance to jump in or away at a moment's notice, she looked in the bushes a moment before pulling a dead rabbit out, and whipping around with a look of warning, holding the rabbit up, the pure white out of season, and obviously previously held in captivity rabbit.

Kakashi took one look before yelling, "Get down!" and shoving Tazuna down with him. Sasuke and Kiba threw themselves to the ground, narrowly avoiding getting their heads cleaved off. Naruto ducked to even though she was out of the way anyway, purely on instinct to obey Kakashi's orders when he used that tone.

Quickly getting up they all saw an enormous sword embedded into a tree, and a man standing on its hilt. Kakashi eyed him for a minute before saying, "Momochi Zabuza, the Demon of the Hidden Mist. I had a sneaking suspicion we'd see you, after all you and the Demon Brothers almost always work together, enough so that you're collectively called the Demonic Trio."

Zabuza snorted then replied, "Copy Nin Hatake Kakashi. That explains why the Demon Brothers failed. Though if you thought you might run into me you really should have turned back, instead of bringing those green Shinobi babies here."

Kakashi immediately pulled his forehead protector up revealing his Sharingan, then ordered his team, "Stay back and protect Tazuna! You may have been able to take out the Demon Brothers, but he's an entirely different matter."

With that the two started fighting eventually though, even with the fact he'd been sending a steady flow of Mizu Bunshin at the genin, Zabuza managed to trap Kakashi in a water prison Jutsu. Upon doing so Naruto finished off the most recent batch of Mizu Bunshin and signaled her teammates to protect Tazuna. After getting their acknowledgment, she threw down a smoke bomb, and while concealed created nine Kage Bunshin, at which point all of them used a solid Henge and transformed into Velociraptors, before she did though she threw another smoke bomb close enough to Zabuza that the smoke would reach him out on the water. When she had discovered her solid Henge she'd asked her summons family to teach her how to move and fight in that form. So with cover to use the signature Velociraptor stealth, she and her clones rushed Zabuza, quickly but quietly. Some of her clones circled around so that she could attack from almost every angle, then they began attacking Zabuza.

Zabuza had wondered what the brat was planning when she threw a smoke bomb down, but didn't feel to concerned. Then another smoke bomb had been thrown and he, with Kakashi, was enveloped in smoke. Keeping his senses peeled, he was a bit unnerved when he, a master of the Hidden Mist Jutsu and therefore used to fighting without his eyes, couldn't detect anything. He became slightly freaked out when some sort of creature jumped at his back. He'd only sensed it at the last few seconds, and whatever that creature was scared him, just a little. He'd only gotten a brief glance at it, as he'd dodged it's initial leap and bite by stepping closer to Kakashi, then he'd struck it and it disappeared into smoke. He soon got a much better look at the fearsome creatures then he'd ever wanted, as that first was followed by three more. They seemed to be large lizard things, but they had movements a bit like birds of prey. He managed to destroy one more while keeping his hold on the water prison, before he was forced to relinquish it when two more came out of the smoke, one jumping and attempting to land on him, and the other, joined by the two he hadn't managed to dispel, attacked low with its jaws as the other two attacked with large scythe looking toe claws he somehow hadn't noticed before. Relinquishing his hold on the water prison, and therefore Kakashi, he jumped away and out of the smoke, valuing his life more than keeping Kakashi caged.

Out of the corner of his eye he noticed that the smoke was disappearing from around Tazuna and the Genin, but noticed the blonde was missing. He realized the smoke he'd just jumped out of was beginning to disappear as well and absently wondered where the blonde had disappeared to, surely she couldn't have been in the second smoke area. She was just a Genin and he definitely would've heard her. When the smoke had cleared enough he could see nine shadowy figures inside, he knew one was Kakashi, and realized with a blanch that the other eight were those creatures if their shapes, which were rapidly becoming clearer, were any indication. They may disappear with one hit, but Zabuza was becoming more frightened of them the longer he saw them. He realized absently that their sudden appearance, which obviously had something to do with the blonde considering she threw the smoke bombs just before they showed up, meant that they might be a summon, but he'd never even heard of creatures like them, and summons were always counterparts to regular animals, and they dispelled easier than any other summons. He realized that they may be summons to extinct creatures, but that still didn't explain why they disappeared so easily. It occurred to him that if they were intelligent, by being summons or some other means, then the way they attacked him in the smoke may have been done in such a way as to purposely instill fear into him. This thought only lessened his fear slightly.

It hadn't taken long to go through these thoughts, and by now the smoke was almost gone. The two Genin and Tazuna seemed unnerved by the creatures, but Kakashi seemed to recognize them and said, "Good job Naruto. But I need you to go back to Tazuna now, this fight will be above your level of skill."

Then much to the shock of everyone except Kakashi, the creatures all disappeared in poofs of smoke, one however when it cleared reveled the missing blonde, who immediately jumped back to her teammates. With a jolt Zabuza realized what had happened, earlier when fighting his clones, she'd reveled that she knew the Kage Bunshin. So Zabuza connected the dots and realized why those creatures had dispelled so easily. They had been Kage Bunshin. Though the reveal of her clever trick left him with another question. When he'd punched one of her clones he'd felt the scales, but the Henge was an illusion, he shouldn't have felt that, hell considering the shape of the creatures his hand should have gone strait through, since the girl wouldn't have been where the illusory head was. So how the hell hadn't he gone through it, and instead actually felt the texture of the creatures skin? If he didn't win this fight, he needed to tell Haku so he could analyze it, because that Genin wasn't someone he could ignore, he now got the distinct feeling that if he even tried she'd tear him to shreds like one of those creatures she'd turned into.

At the end of the fight just as Kakashi was about to finish off Zabuza, three senbon had struck Zabuza in the neck 'killing' him, after that a person claiming to be a Kiri Hunter nin who was hunting Zabuza appeared. The Genin didn't relax, and instead called him on his lies as Naruto had recognized the spot as a pressure point that, when hit simulated death, as she'd been training with senbon herself for a few months with Shizune, who had also been teaching her vital spots in the body. Kiba and Akamaru had smelled Zabuza's smell on him, and it was strong enough that there was no way he didn't spend most of his time within 10 feet of Zabuza, Sasuke on the other hand had noticed that the Hunter nin picked Zabuza up instead of taking the head as proof of the kill, and burning the body immediately, as was protocol in all the elemental country's, he only knew this as he'd been recently contemplating becoming a Hunter nin himself. Of course they didn't tell the fake how they knew he wasn't a real Hunter nin, no reason to reveal more of their skills then they already had after all. The fake Hunter tensed at being called out, but didn't attack, it would be stupid to do so in the current situation and the genin knew they had the advantage. Before they could attack however, the fake Hunter vanished with Zabuza in a Shunshin. After they confirmed the two were gone Kakashi passed out.

After having some of her clones collect Kakashi they finished making their way to Tazuna's house. While passing through the village they got their first real look at what Gato had done to the country, the streets were littered with people, beggars were all over the place, there were starving children in the streets, and people were sitting slumped against walls in obvious depression. None of the genin liked leaving them as they were, but they knew there was nothing they could do just yet. So for now the three gritted their teeth and kept moving towards Tazuna's house.

However there was one more thing that was common in many of the people, and it was something very strange indeed, both children and adults looked at them in pity. As though they were the ones suffering. Unable to contain her curiosity, she turned to Tazuna and asked, "Why are they looking at us like that? They have no reason to pity us, and many reasons to be pitied."

Tazuna glanced at her, then at the people surrounding them before replying, "Gato has made a point to publicly torture and execute any who dared challenge him. When he gathered crowds to watch he even put guards around to kill any who tried to leave, forcing them to either watch someone be tortured and executed or die. I don't need to be a mind reader to know for a fact, that many of them are thinking they'll soon be watching the same happen to you."

"I welcome Gato to try. It would save me the trouble of hunting him down so I can kill him."

Tazuna glanced at her before asking, "Your going to kill Gato? Don't get me wrong I, and everyone who isn't one of his mercenaries, want him dead more than anything, but I thought Shinobi didn't kill someone who's not either in the contract or attacking you and/or your client?"

"Normally we don't, but there's no way we're leaving him alive." Sasuke said this with utter calm and certainty.

Kiba and Naruto nodded their agreement. It was at this point they arrived at Tazuna's house and upon entering Tazuna called out, "Tsunami? I'm home. Despite their ages I brought some really good Shinobi, but one of them is unconscious. Where do you want us to put him?"

A woman entered the area and hugged Tazuna before saying, "Father! I'm so glad your home safe!" Then taking a step back and sweeping her gaze over the genin she spotted Kakashi and added, "There's a spare room upstairs, you can put him there. After that you guys come back down and eat."

Taking Kakashi up and laying him in a spare bed roll, the the Genin went back down to get a well deserved lunch.