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"You really have to work on trusting people. If you can't trust my team then the next month will be worse than Hell."

"But I can't! What if they find out about me if I slip up?"

He waved the comment away. "I told you to trust them with your life, not your secrets. All I want is for you to trust them to be competent at their job. That means I want you to do less on team missions. If it was just us you'd be fine but you don't have to do so much on team missions. You'd actually be getting in the way by trying to do someone else's job."

"I know but it was pretty much beat into me that if I trust someone, I trust them completely. I'll try though, for you."

"Alright, come on then. We have to meet Snake and Hound for a mission."

"Hound, I want Pakkun to track them, we can't lose these guys. Snake, trap them. Phoenix, watch and learn. I'll take them out myself."

"Yes Captain." The three Special ANBU were in perfect sync.

They left the forest, leaping into a field close to a village. Their target was a missing nin. The guy was on the ground, bound by snakes. Other missing nins surrounded him, bound in a similar fashion.

Phoenix pulled out his Bingo Book and looked the five nins up. Four low level jounin and one high chuunin, nothing hard. He divided his attention between the one-sided battle and some entrys in the Bingo Book. It was new so he trusted that the information was fairly accurate. He flipped through the pages, looking for the leader of the group of missing nins. Ah, here he was. Nori Madarame from the Hidden Grass, mid-jounin level poison specialist. Child's play. If he was the strongest tthat the group had to offer, then this mission would be pretty boring.

"So Team 0, how was your mission?"

Two members of the elite team said, "It was fine Lady Hokage."

The woman raised a blonde brow at the other two men. "Fox, Phoenix?"

Fox shifted. "To be frank, the mission was quite boring Lady Hokage."

Phoenix muttered. "And you actually did something." He was more comfortable around the big breasted woman since she had yelled at him for his disappearing act.

Tsunade peered at them over her joined fingers. "Hmm, Phoenix is still learning how team missions work... If you're bored, I believe you're ready to start participating. How is your teamwork coming along?"

Phoenix sighed. "It's harder because I joined a ready-made team but our teamwork is improving and we're working on trust."

The Hokage nodded. "I see. Your last mission was a B-rank if I remember correctly? If you're still learning about some things... I have it!"

Fox sighed. "You have what, Lady Hokage?"

"Your mission! It's an A-rank diplomacy mission to Wave. Your team is to meet with the Mayor and stay with his family. This mission is regarding the upcoming alliance between us."

Fox's whole demeaner changed. He seemed to light up the room. Phoenix suspected that the redhead had a shit-eating grin on his face.

"Captain Fox, Captain Phoenix, does your team accept this mission?"

The team shot to their feet immediately. The two Captains spoke as one. "It will be done." All four Special ANBU were gone even before she had the chance to blink.

The two Captains were in their two man tent that Fox had sealed in a scroll. Instead of sleeping in their own sleeping bags, they had spread out the two. They were lying on Phoenix's sleeping bag and they were covered by Fox's. Phoenix was curled on his side with Fox curled around him, a hand holding one of the younger ninja's smaller hands.

Phoenix sighed. "I hate sleeping during missions, this mask is not the most comfortable."

Fox sighed at his fellow Captain's statement. Phoenix may be an excellent ninja but he was no war-hardened veteran like the rest of Team 0. "Remind me to show you some of my memories of the Fourth Ninja World War in your pensieve later. You'll never say that again."

There was a slightly uncomfortable silence before Phoenix spoke. "So why are we going to Wave?"

"Our mission requires us to."

He smacked the redhead's forearm. "Don't treat me like I'm stupid. Why are you so happy that we're going to Wave?"

A sigh and a muttered comment about abuse was the only answer for what felt like eternity but was only two minutes. "Fine. I have a plan. Part of my plan will take place there and I can finally start putting it into action. Besides that, there are a few people there that I haven't seen in a while. It'll be nice to catch up with them."

"Oh. Am I going to be included in this plan of yours?"

"I would like that very much but it's completely up to you. It's a complex plan so everything won't just happen overnight. It's going to take years."

Phoenix turned over so that he could see his lover's mask. "Fox, I'm not leaving you. We need each other. You are my teacher, my friend and my lover. I'll go where you go as long as you want me."

There was a short pause. "Phoenix..."

Phoenix slipped his porcelin mask off and then Fox's. He left their clotch facemasks on leaned in to kiss the older ninja. Despite the lack of skin to skin contact,it was the most loving kiss either had ever had. They separated slowly. Raku eye-smiled at his lover and replaced both of their masks. He snuggled into the other Captain's chest.

Fox wrapped an arm around him and waited. Soon enough he heard deep breathing and his lover relaxed against him a little. He wasn't completely relaxed though. He stopped relaxing like that when Ruto started attackinghim in his sleep, for training purposes of course. He buried his face into the mostly ebony hair. He whispered something then fell quickly into a deep sleep, reassured that Hound would wake him in a couple hours so each of them could have a couple hours of solid sleep.

Unknown to Fox, the other Captain was not asleep. Emerald eyes blinked. "I love you too Fox."

They stepped off of the boat and Fox lead his team toward the forest. Phoenix noticed that Fox seemed to recognise their location. Fox leapt from branch to branch like he'd made this trip a hundred times before. Maybe he had. The team followed his fast pace.

In a matter of minutes they were on the Mayor's doorstep. Phoenix knew they were on the mayor's doorstep and not some random person's when Fox relaxed just the slightest bit. You wouldn't notice unless you knew what to look for.

They straightened up and Phoenix knocked on the door.

It wasn't even a second later that the door was thrown open by a beautiful woman in her thirties. She looked at everyone, a little puzzled. "Hello, are you all here to see my father?"

Fox stepped forward. "Hello Tsunami, yes we are."

"Captain Fox!" She gave the poor Captain a back-breaking hug. "You haven't been here in a while!"

He chuckled. "I know, I've been busy." He beckoned his team forward. "This is the rest of Team 0, you haven't formally met. To my left is Hound, to my right is Snake and this," He dragged his Co-Captain up beside him. "Is the reason I was busy. This is Phoenix, my student and Co-Captain."

The woman smiled at the masked nins. "Nice to meet you. Won't you come in?"

All four Special ANBU stepped inside only to be instantly stopped by a younger boy who tackle-hugged the readheaded Captain. "Fox! I have to talk to you!"

Fox let himself be dragged along behind the young boy as the rest of his team was ushered to the table by Tsunami. Phoenix looked across the table at Hound and Snake. "Um, why is Fox so familiar with this family?"

"One of our teams was sent on a mission here a number of years ago. It was a genin team sent on an A-rank mission so it was a big deal to the higher ups. Anyway, one kid managed to save all of Wave and had that huge bridge named after him." Tsunami brought tea for the three ninjas. "Ever since then, Fox has been coming here on solo missions to keep our relations friendly. That was seven or eight years ago so he's like family I guess." Hound moved the bottom of his porcelin mask to the side so he could drink his tea through his cloth mask.

Tsunami took the seat next to Phoenix. "So why is the whole team here when Fox is more than enough?"

Phoenix cleared his throat. "I am learning how to do different types of missions like simple track and capture, political, escort, recon, infiltration, demolition and even assassination."

Hound peered at him as he replaced his mask. "When did you have time to do those, you've only been on four C-ranks with us so far."

Phoenix made a familiar handsign and it was obvious that he was smiling when he said, "Shadow Clone Jutsu." A second Phoenix appeared.

Snake finally spoke up. "How many of those can you make at once?"

Phoenix shrugged. "Enough." He heard Fox on his way from the kitchen. "How many missions have I done so far Captain?"

The redhead sauntered in with a bowl of rice. "Including the ones with the team and the ones with me or just your solo missions?"

He thought it over. "All of them."

"Alright. You've done 4 with the team, all C-rank. You've done 27 with me, 6 C-rank, 21 B-rank. On your own you've done 17, 13 B-rank, 4 A-rank. In total you've done 48 missions, not including this one."

Hound jumped to his feet. "But that's insane! Captain Phoenix has only been on the team a week!"

Snake laughed at her teammate. "Think about it Hound. Fox is able to do incredible things, it's only reasonable that any student he has is able to do the same."

Phoenix grinned. "I'll let you in on a secret. That is my entire mission record from my ninja career."

Hound sighed in relief. "Well that's not so bad."

Phoenix smirked. "Which began six days ago."

Hound had to sit down.

At the moment, Phoenix was tired. Very tired. Fox kept him up late training, then pulled him out of bed at the ungodly hour of four in the morning for more training. Now, at one in the afternoon, Fox has literally pulled him along on a tour of the village. Inari had stuck to Fox like glue so far and Phoenix had a feeling that he was about to find out Fox's plan.

The group of three crossed the Great Naruto Bridge. Inari smiled at it, so did Phoenix, Fox laughed.

The redhead sighed. "I remember this bridge. I actually dropped my mask a little bit that day."

Inari looked up at Fox. "You were there? Who are you anyway Captain Fox?"

Fox lifted Inari onto his back. Phoenix prepared to Body Flicker after the redhead. Sure enough, Fox disappeared. Phoenix tracked his chakra signature, unable to keep up to the older and more experienced ninja. A couple seconds later he appeared next to Fox infront of an abandoned building.

"Where are we?" Phoenix and Inari glanced at each other, amused that they'd spoken at the same time.

"We're at Gato's hideout. I came here right after the attack at the bridge to seal away all the money and everything. Then the bandits came to grab their money before leaving town." Fox's tone was cruelly amused. "I bundled them up and sent them to Snake."

"Who's Snake?" Inari sounded confused.

Phoenix took pity on the boy. "Snake is a member of Team 0. She specializes in torture and interrogation. She's at your house, you met her."

"Anyway." Fox spoke up. "Inari, have you and your family been spreading the message as I told you to?"

"Yes we've been passing the 'special' messages to the people with the right codewords too."

"Very good." He finally turned to his partner. "It's probably about time that I told you my plan. Alright, you know that my mother came from Whirlpool and that Wave holds a special place in my heart. What I never told you was that my father wanted to revive Whirlpool with my mother and have enough children to ressurect both of their clans. I will carry out his dream. I will have enough children to provide an heir to every clan I am heir of. As for the village, Whirlpool will rise again. There will be ninjas of the Whirling Tides once more. My goal is to make Wave our outpost. We will get everyone who wishes to leave Konoha here, bring them to Whirlpool, make some formal allinaces then break the alliance with Konoha."

While Phoenix thought this over, Fox spoke to Inari. "I think you've earned the right to know who I am." He removed his porcelin mask, then his cloth mask, then cast a demon illusion so that his appearance would be the one that Inari was familiar with.

The boy's eyes nearly popped out of his head. "Naruto? You've changed so much!"

"From when you knew me? Nah, that wasn't me. This is me." He released the illusion. "Captain Fox is me. What you saw that day on the bridge was just a fraction of my power." He waited for Inari to stop spluttering. "It's a bloodline from my mother's clan. Anyway Inari, I wanted to ask you something. How would you like to become one of my ninjas?"

"A Whirling Tides ninja? I'd love to!"

A fanged grin appeared on his face. "Great. Now, since you're one of my ninjas, I have a mission for you. Once we've trained you a bit, I want you to come to Konoha with me. As a ninja, you will tell certain people about a new village. I also want you to be there when I start training a new team. You will work with that team when needed and in my records, you will be their teacher. In Konoha's records, you will be Phoenix's responsibility so he will be training you most of the time."

Inari nodded. "Alright, but you said 'as a ninja'. I'll need a disguise of some sort or your old team will probably recognise me."

Fox looked to Phoenix and the younger nin sighed.

The dark haired ninja removed his porcelin mask as well as his ever-present with his cloth mask. He was becoming as bas as Kakashi.

Inari gaped. Unnoticed to him, Fox disappeared after whispering something to his Co-Captain. "Wow." He blinked just to make sure he was seeing right. "You're beautiful."

The ninja sighed again. "Please don't say that, I'm a guy. You can say I'm good looking but only Ruto can call me beautiful."

Inari blinked. "Why's that Sensei?" He thought for a moment. "Are you two together?"

The newly dubbed 'Sensei' nodded slowly. "We are. Does that bother you?"

"Not at all." The boy blushed. "Actually, I haven't told anyone yet but I'll tell you sinve you're my sensei. Um, I think I might like men. I had one of those dreams about one of my friends and seeing guys in tight clothes or not fully clothed... affects me."

"... I see. So you think your senseis are hot? That's perfectly normal. When I was younger I thought my sports team's Captain was the hottest thing ever. He taught me how to play. The were so many nights that I woke up from dreams where he was teaching me other things."

"Oh. Anyway, now that you know my secret can we come up with a disguise?"

He laughed. "Okay, okay. Um, since Inari is the Fox God and you're a kid, I think we'll call you Kit. As for a disguise... Will you be alright with me changing your appearance?"

"Yes, but I'd like to see what I look like before you do anything permanent."

A chuckle was heard, some handsigns were made and a very different looking Inari was looking at himself in a conjured mirror.

"Alright." In a moment went from carpenter's apprentice to ninja. He took the offered facemask from his Sensei. He was now Kit. He looked at his new mentor. "Hey Sensei, what's your name anyway?"

The older boy looked at him. "You can call me Raku."

The rest of the mission was done almost entirely by shadow clones. Fox spent the rest of the mission training Kit, Phoenix spent the rest of the mission developing his newly discovered bloodline limit. After a visit from Fawkes, he knew that in it's advanced state, the limit made any other bloodlines useless against him. Fox had used the Sharingan and Byakugan as examples: the Sharingan would not be able to see him or copy him while the Byakugan would not be able to see his chakra network, only a blank person. Fawkes had also given him knowledge of something to work on at Hogwarts.

They returned to Konoha after a week in Wave. Kit was just beginning to learn the basics from his teachers. Well, their version of the basics. Tsunami and Tazuna had readily agreed to the Hero of Wave teaching Inari and so had Team 0.

The problem was Konoha. The village would accept one student of an ANBU but not two. That was why they all stood in the Hokage's office, to come up with a reason.

There was a tired sigh. "So let me get this straight. Fox left a shadow clone to negotiate with Tazuna while he was really off with Phoenix and Inari. Hound and Snake had nothing to do with it." Getting a nod from everyone, she sighed again. "Hound, Snake, you are dismissed." She waited for them to go before relaxing as Phoenix put up a privacy barrier of demon origin. "So Fox, is there a reason that you got another student?"

The masked ANBU bowed his head in submission to the Hokage. "Yes Lady Hokage. This is Tazuna's grandson Inari, from Wave. He has agreed to become one of my ninjas."

Her eyes widened and Tsunade dropped her sake, a true sign of shock. "You've started recruitment already? Who do you have so far?"

"For certain? Me, you, Phoenix, Hound, Snake, Kit, a couple of people that I met on my trip with Jiraiya, a Konoha nin I won't name, Tails and my cousin Namimaru."

"Tails! You got Tails to agree? Wait, of corse you did, you're Kushina's son. Anyway, what's your story for Inari?"

"I was thinking he'd be Phoenix's student."

Flat out rejection. "He doesn't have that kind of reputation yet, nobody will believe it."

Fox ran a hand through his hair. "Well if he can't be Phoenix's student, what can he be? He certainly can't be my student!"

Kit spoke up. "I could be his brother?"

Tsunade carefully inspected the boy. How old was he anyway? He looked younger than Phoenix, not that anyone could tell with the masks on. Their hair colour wasn't too different, their heights were similar and so were their builds. She finally decided. "Alright, people will believe that. Inari, how old are you?"

The boy removed his mask to reveal a face similar to his 'big brother' Raku's. "I'm fourteen Lady Hokage."

She handed him a ninja registration form. "Get Phoenix to help you fill it out, I doubt you've been taught everything on it will you be living?"

While the two newest members of Team 0 left to fill out the form and get Kit's new ninja clothes, Fox stepped up and sat on Tsunade's desk. It groaned under the weights he was wearing. "He'll live with us Granny. We're the only ones he knows in Konoha right now. He won't meet anyone else for a week or so at least. He'll have to go through Hell first if Tails has his way."

Phoenix looked over Kit's shoulder at the form. It was a special one for apprentices. There were questions like: "Your sensei? Chakra nature? Skills?"

Kit answered the questions with little to no difficulty. His sensei was Phoenix, his primary chakra nature was water and the skills he was apprenticing in? Everything.

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