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Chapter 9 training and the mission to wave
After dismissing team 7 and after the talk with Sasuke, Kushina left for her apartment, where she had an unsuspecting visitor. Kushina then questioned him.
"why are you here Kakashi?" Kakashi was sitting in her kitchen, looking at her intently. He sighed then said.
"it was really dangerous for you to talk about your fake life in the Anbu." Kushina immediately accused him.
"you were spying on us! I asked for a private conversation but that's too much to ask." Kakashi then stood up and scolded her.
"your getting reckless, you can't keep telling everyone your fake life, it's also disrespectful to those who are actually Anbu." Kushina realized her mistake, she sat down and the kitchen table. Kakashi did the same courtesy, he felt insulted that Kushina told Sasuke about a fake life in Anbu, without realizing what was in the Anbu, he himself was Anbu. Kushina apologized.
"I'm sorry. Your right, I'm getting reckless with this fake life. I already told three people, that's pretty bad, and I won't do it again." Kakashi accepted the apology immediately and lifted his angry features. He looked at the young jounin and said.
"it's alright, your young, you will make mistakes. Now how are you going to teach them?" Kushina looked at Kakashi and said.
"I'm going to teach them what I know, but I'm going to work on their mentality first. Nii-san is fine, although a little depressed. Sasuke needs to get over Itachi killing his clan." Kakashi was already going to interrupt her there, but Kushina beat him to it.
"before you start scolding me again, yes, I know about the Uchiha massacre. Itachi was more of a hero that most of this village understands. From a medical ninja's perspective, there is little I can do. Itachi deserves to live far more than 90% of this village. I want to save him." Kushina informed. Kakashi stared at Kushina in shock. Kakashi didn't know about the truth behind the Uchiha massacre. Kakashi had to ask.
"how is Itachi a hero?" Kushina's answer was getting her history book, she couldn't find it, till she eyed several scrolls. She realized that Jiraiya must have entered her house and sealed her possessions within them. She took the scrolls and asked Kakashi.
"can you unseal these? I never trained in fuinjutsu" Kushina didn't read her fuinjutsu book during the time she trained Naruto for the 3 weeks before. Naruto was attack several times during those weeks and she couldn't spare the chakra for any Kage bunshins. Kushina already despises the village for it's crimes against the true hero of Konoha. She truly wanted to do something about it, but the Sandaime told her of the consequences. Iwa would easily descend upon them if they found out the truth. Kakashi looked at the scrolls and unsealed what was inside, Kakashi suddenly backed from the table with eyes widened, he easily recognized the weapons on the table. He spoke dumbfounded.
"th-those are Minato sensei!" Kakashi eyed the Hiraishin kunai knives with deep intent. He carefully picked one up and examined it with care. He gasped out and said.
"y-your-" he stuttered and Kushina nodded. The red head jounin said.
"yes I'm learning my grandfather's prized jutsu. I already understand how most of it works, but I need fuinjutsu training to place my own seals on it properly." Kakashi put the kunai knife down and went back to the subject at hand, rather stupidly after a few moments revelation ago.
"so about Itachi?" Kushina picked up the history text book and opened it to the page of the Uchiha massacre. Thanks to her father's uncensored book, Kakashi quickly understood the reasons behind the Uchiha Massacre. After reading the book, Kakashi put the book down and said.
"as a medical ninja, how would you fix this?" he asked on Kushina's medical profession, in hopes that in a medical ninja's perspective will be much more useful than that of a regular ninja's perspective but Kushina snorted out first.
"Ha! Asking a medical ninja about relationship problems. Wrong profession if you ask me, but I'm not particularly sure. This is a first for me." she paused, causing Kakashi to scratch the back of his head sheepishly. Kushina continued afterwards.
"I want to save both Uchihas, but it's difficult when one wants to kill the other, and the other is an unsung hero." she grimaced. She then adopted a thinking pose. She simply closed her eyes and analyzed everything from a medical ninja's perspective. Which consists of seeing the main problem, and how to fix it. Simple, but effective way of thinking. Kakashi didn't interrupt Kushina's thought processes. This is rather important. After a few moments of thinking, Kushina opened her eyes and said.
"I think that we should adopt my sensei's perspective." Kushina paused for dramatic effect, but Kakashi smirked and broke it.
"your gonna take a gamble I take it?" Kushina cursed him and said.
"yes, there's no way we can fix this without taking a risk, of course this risk will cause huge consequences if we fail. My plan was to tell Sasuke the truth, but he could transfer his anger on to the village, but if we keep this hidden, then he would retaliate at us for keeping this a secret. Another plan would be to make contact with Itachi and tell him to tell Sasuke the truth. Yet again, Sasuke probably wouldn't listen to reason and lash out on Itachi or even us." she sighed at the explanation, the Uchiha's are in a seriously deep hole, and it seems only one would be free of their burden. Kakashi eyed the red head medical ninja in awe, he knew it was a good idea to ask a medical ninja about relationship problems. How strange.
"we are in great trouble aren't we?" Kakashi asked. Kushina gave a small chuckle and replied.
"you don't know the half of it, we got a war to watch out for, we got traitors to kill, and we got S-rank shinobi that needs to go down." she sighed out and went on.
"there's no way to make that sound any better no matter how much you try." Kakashi nodded in agreement and said.
"so… back to our team, you said your going to take care of their mentality?" Kushina nodded and continued what they were talking about originally.
"last but certainly the least, Sakura. She needs to erm…" she looked away but continued.
"she needs to develop… romantic feelings for my nii-san, far enough too…" she blushed at the thought, Kakashi understood immediately and assured her.
"I understand" Kushina took a quick breath of relief and went on.
"it's necessary because the Kyuubi spoke to me and nii-san. It got me thinking on the subject of time travel. It sucks but I need to be born before nii-san and I can save the world." she snorted the last part. She didn't like Sakura and she believed she never will. She also felt disgusted being the daughter of that pink haired monster, but most of all she felt great pity that her nii-san needs to do certain things with the weak pink haired girl. On Kakashi's part, he wasn't surprised about the Kyuubi as he was there when Naruto slain 3 Iwa ninjas. However the part that Sakura has to be with Naruto pained him, being forced to manipulate people always made him frown. He wasn't anything like Danzo, but it must be done. Kakashi asked another question, changing the subject while do so.
"who are the traitors we need to kill again?" Kushina sighed and pulled out a list. A list of all the enemies that must fall for the sake of Konoha.
"here's a list for all those we must kill." she grimaced. Kakashi eyed the list and memorized it. The list was.
1. Madara Uchiha
2. Kabuto Yakushi
3. Danzo Shimura
4. Mizuki Touji
5. The Akatsuki
There was a side note next to the label Akatsuki that read.
Save Itachi Uchiha and Nagato if possible.
Kakashi gave the list back to Kushina who pocketed it, crumbling the paper as it entered Kushina's pocket. Kushina sighed out loudly and looked outside the window she has sadly. Kakashi gave a comforting hand to her shoulder, thoughts about the people they must kill slightly intimidates him, but his thoughts wandered to the well being of his fellow jounin. Kushina again sighed and said.
"you know, I'm jealous of nii-san, I sometimes wished I had his unyielding fearless, me thinking about our predicament scares me. I have to fight ridiculously strong people for the sake of my nii-san." she scoffed at the thought. Due to her more reserved nature, she isn't as brave as her tou-san. Her lip actually quivered at the thought of facing so many S-class missing nins. She tried to hid it, but Kakashi saw it before it was too late. Kakashi knew of her problem and said.
"there's nothing wrong with a little fear. Like you said with Sasuke, there's nothing wrong with getting help. Let us help Naruto together." Kushina looked at Kakashi who had an eye smile on his face. Kushina piped down on her fear and broke the tension with sudden curiosity.
"can I see what's under that mask of yours?" Kakashi looked at her with a deadpan expression. Then replied.
"no" he said bluntly. Kushina then snickered to herself and got a devious idea. She never saw what was behind the mask of Kakashi Hatake in neither now or the future. She could easily take him down. Kushina suddenly grinned to herself which scared Kakashi immensely. Suddenly chains sprung from Kushina, pinning Kakashi to the chair, unable to weave hand seals. Kakashi already knew what was going to happen and cried out.
"please don't do it! I'll do anything you want!" Kushina already got a wicked grin on her face, she couldn't afford to stop now, otherwise she would never get such an opportunity again. Although, the offer that Kakashi granted was extremely tempting. Kushina pondered on this for several moments, then spoke up.
"alright, you'll do anything?" Kakashi never allowed anyone to see his face, it'd be blasphemous of himself to let anybody to see it. Kakashi thought about it and said.
"as long as it's within reason." Kushina smirked and accepted.
"alright, I want to fight you, no holds barred. We stop till one can't go any further." Kakashi nodded furiously, he could definitely live with that condition. Kushina then said one last thing.
"tell the Sandaime about our up coming fight." Kakashi again nodded. Kushina released her chains and Kakashi immediately sprung back, knocking the chair while doing so. He had a panicked look on his face then shunshined away. Kushina smirked at her victory.
Kushina sent a clone to follow Naruto around right after she made the ultimatum with Kakashi. She again left her apartment, with her jounin vest on. Nobody touches a ninja with a jounin vest. She wandered Konoha endlessly, her thoughts went back to the Akatsuki, the traitors she must kill, and her family she used to have. She felt so alone in the past, nobody to help her, She had no one to trust, and no one to care for her, and in this Konoha, everyone gave her a wide berth. Rumors were already flying that the 'demon' has a guardian, labeled at 'the demon's protector'. She grimaced at the thought.
'so this is what tou-san had to deal with' she shook her head in denial and corrected her thoughts.
'no, tou-san had to deal with worst things' Kushina walked around a bit more till she wandered into the forest. She then heard an argument going about. Kushina decided to visit the Sandaime. She was going to get history to follow it's intended path. With a shunshin, she left.
In the Sandaime's office, Hiruzen was filling out paperwork. Suddenly a cloud of smoke appeared, the figure spoke up.
"Sandaime, we gotta talk about team 7's first C-rank mission." the smoke cleared and revealed Kushina. Typical. Hiruzen sighed in frustration, and said.
"alright, what about it?"
"in two months, Team 7's first C-rank mission was a trip to wave, the client was Tazuna. He lied about the mission parameters and in truth it was an A-rank mission, please give this mission to Team 7." Hiruzen with wide eyes shook that his Naruto-kun's first real mission was A-rank, he immediately protested, but Kushina wasn't having any of it. She said rather calmly.
"Sandaime, this first mission was the most important mission to my tou-san. It helped set Nii-san's ninja way. Let this happen, now please, save this mission for us?" the Sandaime sighed out and agreed. Kushina smiled to herself, unknown to her, that mission will have some tweaks to it. Kushina finished the conversation with a.
"thanks Sandaime, have a good day." with a smile, she left in a shunshin. The Sandaime again sighed out and thought.
'your life is full of adventures, isn't it Naruto-kun?'
The next day, team 7 showed up in training ground 7, at 7. This time, only the 3 genins and Kushina waited for their 5th member of their team. All 13 year olds sighed out in frustration, till Kushina broke the silence.
"I'll find him." in a cloud of smoke, she's gone. A few moments later, Kushina reappeared with Kakashi who was screeching out that Kushina was pulling on his ear too hard. Kushina released him and said.
"alright team 7, the first thing we should be doing is getting your chakra under much more refined control. We are going to climb trees!" she said with enthusiasm. The genins sweat dropped at their sensei. Sakura again pointed out the obvious.
"sensei? We already know how to climb trees." Kushina stopped herself and quickly understood their confusion. She elaborated.
"your going to climb trees with nothing but your feet." again Team 7 looked at their sensei in confusion. This time Kushina sighed out and said.
"nothing but your feet and chakra, the tree climbing exercise is a chakra control exercise." she turned to Kakashi and asked.
"will you please demonstrate Kakashi?" when she turned to him, Kakashi was reading his perverted novel. Kushina gritted her teeth and stomped over to him, Kakashi knew she was coming and quickly put his novel away. He quickly said.
"alright! I'll do it!" Kakashi quickly ran up the nearest tree and shocking the genins. Kushina smirked in victory, and the genins in shock. Kushina saw their shock and explained.
"Kakashi here placed chakra on his feet, permitting him to climb the tree with ease. Doing this exercise, all your future jutsu will be much easier to perform, purely because your wasting less chakra per use, thus you can perform the same jutsu many more times." the genins all nodded at her explanation. The ability to use a jutsu far more times than you can usually do it will be incredible useful. Kushina then threw down 3 kunai knives on to the genins feet. Kushina again explained.
"use those to mark your progress." Kushina turned to Sasuke.
"if you need help, all you have to do is ask." Sasuke actually nodded in response. Kushina then summoned a Kage bunshin. The genins looked at her in confusion again, wondering the purpose of the bunshin. Kushina again explained.
"this clone here will watch over your progress. Even though I'm a jounin, I'm still training just like you guys. Bye!" she left in a shunshin. Only to come back with a backpack. Kushina then summoned up several more clones. The genins again looked at her in confusion. The clone noticed they weren't working and said.
"why aren't you guys training?" the genins snapped out of their stupor then started walking up the tree. The clone grinned and the real Kushina started walking into the woods, the batch of clones followed her. Kakashi of course followed her. When Sakura fell off the tree on her first try. She asked.
"where's sensei going?" the clone answered.
"she's going to train. She didn't have any opportunities to train herself, and now she's taking the time she has now." Sakura still was left in the dark, but reluctantly went back to climbing the tree.
The real Kushina, her clones, and Kakashi left for a clearing. She then ordered her clones their commands.
"alright, 5 of you set up the genjutsu field" 5 clones went to set up the genjutsu. The purpose of this genjutsu was to keep any unwanted company away from her training. She continued with her orders.
"you" she pointed at a clone, the clone readied herself for orders.
"set up a target" the clone went to work, cutting out a bull eye target with wind chakra, while doing so. The real Kushina opened up her backpack, filled with books and a scroll. She again summoned more clones and each clone took a book. They each took a spot around the area and started reading. The scroll left behind was taken by the real Kushina, who again asked Kakashi to unseal what was inside. Like last time, Kakashi stepped back from the weapons that were revealed. Kushina explained.
"I still need to practice with these kunai knives, before I went into Konoha, I saw these weapons. I threw one but I missed the spot I was aiming for, so I need training with these before I use them." Kakashi understood her reasoning and Kushina threw the first one, thinking.
'I know your out there tou-san, I'm also hoping that you would show up.' unfortunately for her, her tou-san never appeared.
Former Rokudaime Hokage Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, under his alias of his father, the Yondaime Hokage felt every pull. He knew it had to be his daughter. He knew it meant two things. Either she's training her aim with the weapon, or she's calling him. He made a guess it was the former. The former Rokudaime continued to ignore the pulls and watched over Ame. Currently every Akatsuki member is within it's walls. This has never happened before. Several times Naruto infiltrated Ame only to be kicked out by either Madara or his minions. Every single time, Madara asked who Naruto was, and every time Naruto never answered. Both sides went nowhere in their battle for Nagato.
On Nagato's part, he continued to ponder on who he should trust, this stranger or the person who worked with him for years. The subject of peace, forever sketched on his mind.
On Konan, she didn't care about the stranger, only about Nagato's safety. Once Nagato asked her what he or Yahiko would do, but she simply didn't know what to do. She always suspected Madara, and brought her suspicions to her fellow orphan. Who agreed with her. He should do something about Madara, however, he believed he should learn more about both Madara and this stranger that continues to bring chaos to Ame. But there was one glaring thing Nagato noticed. The stranger never killed a single person in Ame.
By now, all of the Akatsuki knows of Naruto's presence, but they never found out his identity. Every time one of the Akatsuki members make contact with Naruto, Naruto flees, only for the safety for the people of Ame, if a fight broke out, then several innocents would die. Both Nagato and Naruto knows this to be true, thus Naruto never openly fought against any member. Till two months later…
Two months later, back in Konoha. Kushina and Kakashi taught team 7 both tree climbing and the water walking exercise. Kushina often wondered how Kakashi couldn't make them stronger than they were in the original timeline.
During the tree climbing exercise two months ago. Sasuke did something nobody thought he would.
Flashback two months ago.
The 3 genins were training the tree climbing exercise, the clone of Kushina of course watched the whole time, laughing at their mistakes. Sakura was the first to completing the exercise, much to Sasuke and Naruto's irritations. The clone only told her to keep doing the exercise, to help build up Sakura's stamina.
Both Sasuke and Naruto got a little rivalry going and both rushed to the top of the tree. Of course neither made it. Yet, but the shocking part of their exercise was when Sasuke asked Sakura for help. The clone was watching the interaction with full attention. Sasuke asked.
"how are you doing that?" he asked curiously. Sakura with wide eyes squealed that her Sasuke-kun came to her for help. Naruto joined in to listen to any advice Sakura had to give. With enthusiasm, Sakura explained.
"you have to make a moderation of chakra in your feet, if you put too much chakra, you will break the tree. Too little, you will simply fall off." both Sasuke and Naruto absorbed what she said. The clone of Kushina of course smiled at the interaction. Thinking.
'Sasuke's learning, good, I wonder what he meant yesterday, thinking me as interesting…' she was snapped out of her stupor when the sun settled out. Neither males of team 7 finished the exercise that day. Kushina never expected them too, she herself only learned it in a whole days worth of time. She then told everyone their dismissed. Making frowns on both Sasuke and Naruto, but to Kushina's surprise, they finished the exercise that night. Both snuck out of their homes in the dead of night to finish the exercise, much to Kushina's irritation, but she's happy that they got the exercise done.
Flashback end!
The days after the tree climbing exercise, Kushina got them working on the water walking exercise, again saying the same thing before. The purpose being to help stop the genins from wasting chakra. They again, learned this on training ground 7. Kushina knew in the original timeline, Naruto had issues learning this part, solely because of the 5 pronged seal Orochimaru placed upon him, luckily, Naruto didn't have much trouble here this time around. However unlike the tree climbing exercise, Sasuke and Naruto were both wiped out from yesterday's work, so Kushina made Sakura do the exercise, while both males of team 7 rest.
Sakura finished the exercise a week later, stating that this exercise is much, much harder to learn. This only made both Sasuke and Naruto more determined to catch up to her. Like the last exercise, Sakura was made to keep walking on the exercise to boost her stamina. Once more, Sasuke was the one who asked for more advice. Naruto again joined in to listen. Sakura for the last time gave the advice freely. Which both greedily learned. 2 and a half weeks later, the entire team 7 learned the water walking exercise.
Kushina was surprised by their progress and always wondered how Kakashi, in the original timeline couldn't have made them much stronger, but assumed that his depression got the better of him.
For the rest of the 5 weeks and a half, Kushina filled in their minds about the wonders of being a ninja and all the fields they could learn, Kakashi helped her out on this part thanks to his great variety on most of the subjects. Kushina gave them ample amount of time for them to think about what they want to learn. Naruto of course wanted to learn anything. Kushina recommended Sakura Medical ninjutsu, so she began training her there, although she herself never finished medical ninjutsu training. It was incredibly slow, and Sakura couldn't heal anything serious yet. For Sasuke, he didn't tell what he wanted to learn, Kushina assumed he was still questioning his beliefs in power.
On Kushina's part, she trained in her practice in throwing her grandfather's kunai knives, she wanted to see his father again, which was mostly the point of her training, other than being able to toss the weapons accurately. She often used Kakashi as target practice in much to Kakashi's ire, but she eventually gotten good enough to live off by. On to Kushina's fuinjutsu training, she read all the books Jiraiya gave her, but she still needed one more thing. Experience in writing seals. She couldn't use Kage bunshin because writing is strictly muscle memory, not mental. So she had to write several seals, but she needed a particular seal. The blood seal. If she could learn that particular seal, she could end up being Konoha's red flash. Personally, she didn't want the name crimson flash because crimson reminds her the color of blood, she's not bloodthirsty like most of the most dangerous ninja's out there.
Back to reality, Kushina, during her 5 weeks and a half were spent after both chakra control exercise in short, guarding Naruto, learning fuinjutsu, training team 7, informing Sandaime about certain events, and scolding Kakashi. Of course she had some good moments like eating ramen with her nii-san, beating up crowds that dare threaten him, and intimidating Kiba.
During this down time, Kushina and Kakashi still didn't fight yet. Mostly because Kakashi was avoiding the subject like the plague. This irritated Kushina to no end, till she demanded that Kakashi fight her several times over. Kakashi would always vanish in a shower of leaves to escape Kushina's wrath.
After the two months of ignoring Naruto's demand for a higher ranking mission, it was time. Time for team 7's first C-rank mission.
Team 7 meet up in the mission room, the Sandaime and Iruka was passing out missions to several people, but when it was Team 7's turn, Naruto burst into anger, snapping out of his depressed mood.
"Come on old man! Give us a real mission. Im tired doing all these chores for those lazy asses out there!" Kushina snickered at his outrage, but it was Iruka scolded him.
"Naruto! You just got out of the academy 2 months ago!-" he was interrupted by none other than a smiling Sandaime.
"it's fine Iruka, I think it's time for Naruto to get a taste of a real mission. Here's a C-rank mission-" he too was interrupted by a cheering Naruto. Naruto was never a depressed person at heart.
"Yeah! What are we going to do? Protect a princess? Protect some VIP? Kick some evil tyrants silly?" Kushina looked at the Sandaime in shock, she gave him a look that said, 'it's that time already?'. the Sandaime gave Kushina a wink and said to team 7.
"you will be going to wave country, while doing so, you will be protecting a very important client, bring in Tazuna!" suddenly a old man with a beer bottle walked in. he looked at the team guarding him and snorted out.
"this group of brats are the ones protecting me? I better start getting my shovel." everyone but Kakashi twitched their eyes in annoyance, but one blonde haired genin shouted out.
"shut up old man! I'm going to be the future hokage!-" he was stopped when Kakashi put his hand over Naruto's mouth, stopping the blonde idiot. Kakashi, then replied.
"if you genuinely believe age means power, then I am a fully fledge jounin, as is my fellow jounin here." he indicated Kushina. Tazuna stared at the red headed jounin and said.
"so this little girl here is as strong as you?" he questioned Kakashi. Kakashi however was unsure. He simply said.
"I'm not sure, we never fought each other yet" Kushina sighed out in frustration and cried out.
"let's say I am the strongest in team 7 okay?" she grinned, Kakashi sweat dropped and said.
"uh… nah, let's say we're equals okay?" Kushina again sighed out and agreed rather reluctantly. The Sandaime interrupted the moment with a fake cough, bringing everyone's attention.
"team 7 will be guarding Tazuna-san here till he completes the bridge back in Wave country. That is all, team 7 your dismissed." Kushina then said.
"east gate, pack for… 3 weeks time. In one hour." team 7 nodded and everyone left for the gates.
An hour later, team 7 and Tazuna meet at the gates, of course Kakashi was being Kakashi and tried to be late again. Till Kushina grabbed him by the ear and shunshined to the east gate. Team 7 and their client began their journey. While they walked, Sakura asked a question.
"why did you come to Konoha for help? Why not ask Wave country for any of their ninja?" it was Kushina who answered her. Apparently Kakashi was too lazy to help out.
"Wave doesn't have any ninjas, their main power comes from politics. So Tazuna here asked for Konoha to provide military assistance, isn't that right Tazuna-san?" Tazuna nodded and Sakura asked another question.
"are we going to face any enemies?" this time it was Kakashi who answered, surprising Kushina. Kakashi was reading his perverted novel which made Kushina ticked off.
"maa, maa, you worry too much Sakura, this is a C-rank mission, isn't it Kushina?" Kakashi eyed Kushina, he suspected this mission wasn't what it seemed and suspected something was up. Kushina responded.
"your right, Kakashi, it is a C-rank mission, the most we could ever face is bandits or thugs, isn't that right Tazuna-san?" Kakashi noticed Kushina was purposely antagonizing Tazuna, who was slightly sweating. Kakashi got his answer and thought out.
'it is higher than C-rank, but why is Kushina making us take this mission?' At Kushina's proclamation, Sakura felt safe. That is till Kushina and Kakashi noticed a randomly placed puddle on the ground. Kushina wanted to laugh right then and there.
'Ha! This is far better than tou-san's story! Those two are idiots!' suddenly another thought came up.
'I'm living tou-san's story!' the thought of her living in her tou-san's story cheered her up. She kept that smile on her face till they passed the puddle, suddenly two figures emerged from it and together, chained both jounins and with a pull, Kushina and Kakashi were killed.
The initial reaction actually shocked Sakura, who screamed out, but Sakura then remembered her mission and leapt to protect Tazuna. Sasuke however, used chakra to boost his speed and threw a shuriken and a kunai at the chain. Pinning the two figures to a tree, but that didn't stop them. The two figures released their chains and leapt for separate targets. One leapt for Tazuna, and the other descended upon Naruto. For Naruto, apparently, the timeline stayed the same at that instant. Naruto froze and the figure who went after him slashed at him, hitting the back of Naruto's right hand and knocking him to the ground. The figure was about to finish him before a familiar red headed jounin stopped Naruto's assailant with a speedy punch to the stomach, the figure then was knocked into a tree, instantly knocking him out.
For the other figure's fate, he charged at Tazuna, who was being guarded by Sakura, just before the figure nearly attacked her, Sasuke flickered in front of her. He was about to do something before yet another figure came upon Tazuna's assailant. Kakashi of course cloth lined the enemy and the figure was out cold. Kakashi looked at the situation and tied up his prisoner, he quickly found the other assassin and tied both up to a tree.
Between Kushina and Naruto, Kushina looked at Naruto's wound and saw that it was poisoned. Kushina took control and opened the wound a little more, then sucked out the poison. Naruto protested of course, but Kushina wasn't having any of it and used her chakra enhanced strength to hold Naruto's hand steady. Naruto then allowed the medic of the group take out the poison. Meanwhile Sakura scolded the two jounins.
"I thought you two were dead! Why didn't you help us?" Kakashi pointed to the cut up logs where the two assailants supposedly killed them. Sakura got the memo and Kakashi explained.
"we had to know who they were after. Us? Or him?" he indicated Tazuna, who flinched. Kakashi pressed on.
"they clearly went after you, which means that this mission is now a B-rank mission at best, but knowing the enemy, they will send a jounin next time. Making this an A-ranked mission. So tell me Tazuna. Why lie?" seeing no way out. Tazuna explained.
"Wave country is a poor land. So we scrounged up whatever coin we could and hired what we could receive, lying about the mission while doing so, Gato was responsible for Wave's poor economical state, but if I can build the bridge that you were hired to protect. Then Gato will fall and Wave will be free." Tazuna fell to his knees and begged the Konoha ninja.
"I know Wave country lied to you, but please, we need the help. Your all we got left"
Naruto then shouted out.
"are you stupid? Why didn't you just tell the truth?" this shocked everyone. Naruto was never like this. His nee-chan scolded him and said.
"if course we will help you." ignoring the protests of team 7, but Naruto then said.
"we'll only help if you give us full payment of our mission." of course Tazuna accepted, as did the rest of team 7. but Kushina thought.
'what happened to you nii-san?' Naruto lately have been withdrawn to himself more than usual. Till Sasuke then teased him about the first encounter
"what's wrong? Are you scare?" Naruto gritted his teeth, he was about to retort until Kushina intervened.
"Sasuke, that's enough, this was his first time in a real life combat situation, and mine wasn't all that better either." Sasuke looked at his sensei with wide eyes, Kakashi and Sakura heard her too, and Naruto, he was shocked the most of all. Kushina looked at everyone's confusion and told her story of her first fight with someone of superior skills.
Flash back, 4 years ago in Kushina's perspective. Kushina's age 8.
"tou-san! I want a real mission!" The Rokudaime hokage Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze grinned at his daughters demand. He himself once asked it the same way. Currently Tsunade and Kushina were standing at the mission room. Waiting for their next mission. Tsunade of course could complete any mission with ease, but what she wanted was what was best for her student. Tsunade agreed with her student.
"come on Naruto, I trained her, and I think she's ready." Kushina cheered to herself that her sensei is backing her up. Naruto looked back at both his daughter and his grandmother figure. With a sigh he gave the two a C-ranked mission.
"alright, your mission here is to escort a merchant to the land of springs, our friend the spring Daimyo asked for this specific merchant for what he sells. So you two will be guarding him for the duration of the transaction between Koyuki-chan and this merchant. Have fun and good luck girls." with a smile, he left Tsunade and Kushina to their jobs.
Eventually both meet at the designated gates and left with their client. The client was a small man, if you know Gato of the Gato company, then this client is about 1 and a half Gato's height. Kushina and Tsunade were talking about medical ninjutsu at the time, their client didn't really like to talk to the ladies so the student and master were left to their own conversation. They continued like this for a few days till an ambush occurred. Tsunade and Kushina easily defended the client, however at a point, a missing-nin managed to separate both medical ninjas with a powerful shout.
"Doton: Doryuheki (earth release: earth style wall)!"
A large earth wall separated both Kushina and Tsunade. Suddenly a huge group of bandits swarmed Tsunade. Tsunade wasn't worried and fought with confidence. On Kushina's part, she had to deal with the missing nin. So she ran off into the forest, in hopes he can lose the missing nin.
She couldn't lose him.
The missing nin easily caught up to the genin Kushina, who tried to flee back to her sensei, but again, the missing nin cut her off. Kushina instantly stood in her fighting stance, only to get pummeled repeatedly by the older jounin level missing nin. In a fight between a jounin and genin. It's kind of easy who would win. Unless for some unforeseen circumstance. But there were no unforeseen circumstance. It was a simple difference in skills.
Kushina was easily defeated by the older man's speed. Kushina fell to her knees and tried to heal what she could, but was stopped by her enemy. While weaving hand seals, the man clutched on to Kushina's hands and clenched them tightly enough to make Kushina suddenly feel fear. Fear that she was about to die. With several bruises and lacerations and being hit with a Doton: domu (earth release: iron skin(to hell with earth spear, Iron skin makes far more sense.) Kushina started crying out to her tou-san and sensei. In hopes one would save her.
The man was about to finish Kushina off, Kushina saw this and began trembling. She tried to free herself from the older man's grip on her hands, but it wasn't working. Her thoughts wandered about what this man would do to her. The man suddenly laughed and said.
"Ha! Ha! Ha! I caught the Rokudaime's daughter! I recognize those whisker marks anywhere, There's so much I could do with you" the man recognized her, Kushina let some tears fall, she felt doomed in her situation. She knew the dangers of being the child of someone famous, and combined with her medical ninjutsu knowledge. She knew what the man said about her.
Kushina knew that she was going to be either raped, tortured, beaten, or even forced into slavery. Or another possibility, all of the above.
Kushina prayed to her sensei, to her father, to Kami to save her, but none of them answered. She suddenly felt the man's hand on her chest, and she screamed at the contact. The next thing she knew was that she was pinned to a tree. She again thrashed out in hopes of escaping, but the man held her fast. Kushina, seeing no way out, closed her eyes, in hopes of forgetting this crime. Suddenly she felt a bulge spot near her undeveloped womanhood, she was only 8 after all. She again cried out in horror, but was muffled by a gag. Feeling so useless she again began to cry. That's when something beautiful happened. Suddenly the man was ripped off her and pinned to the ground. Kushina of course kept her eyes closed. When she realized that the man in front of her wasn't continuing what Kushina thought was going to happen to her, she opened her eyes. What she saw shocked her to no end.
What she is seeing was several golden colored chains pinning her would be rapist to the ground. The chains leaded to her trembling body, she then gingerly touched one of her chains at the point of the body to chain and gave it a small tug. It was real she realized. Those chains saved her. She again looked at the man she was nearly raped by and the man was cursing to her on the top of his lungs. The man was still being pinned. Kushina didn't know what to do at this point, seeing as she was still recovering from what could have been, she prayed that the chains emerging from her kept the man pinned. As she recovered, she began to notice something. She was beginning to feel tired. She then realized what was happening.
The chains from here are taking chakra. Again, Kushina panicked, she still didn't know what to do. If she tried to flee, the chains would unpin the man and she would end up running again. Only to be killed or worse. If she stayed put, then she would be to tired when the time the chains expired to be at the man's full control. She began to cry again at her predicament. There seemed to be no hope for her this day.
When she felt too exhausted, to her horror, the chains receded back into her. She willed her chains to pin the man down again, but she couldn't control it. The man saw his opportunity and leapt for his capture. He grabbed Kushina by the throat and again pinned her to the same tree, once again. Kushina began crying and closed her eyes again. Despite her tears, she heard what the man before her sneered out.
"your mine now, your pathetic chains won't save you this time, I'm going to-" he was interrupted when an almighty roar and soon to be punch came at him. The man didn't know what hit him and crashed into a tree. Knocking him out. Kushina opened one eye so slowly and to her shock, she saw her sensei and their client before her. She again began to tremble and cry to herself. She merely thought to herself.
'I'm saved, I'm saved, I'm saved'
She hugged herself tightly, then ran up to hug her sensei, she sobbed out incoherent things that neither her sensei or their client could understand. Tsunade merely turned to her and gave her a bear hug. She then began to heal her. Comforting her while doing so. At this point, Kushina managed to calm down. She then pitied herself and said.
"I'm sorry sensei. I failed-" she was interrupted by her sensei, who was finished with healing Kushina and hugged her.
"shut up gaki! this was your first real mission. Things like this could happen, the only thing we could do about is to get stronger to prevent this from happening again." Tsunade scolded. Kushina broke down. She got to her knees and cried out.
"I'm so weak, you had to save me and I was so pathetic, I shou-" she was interrupted again by an angry Tsunade, who slapped her and picked her up by her collar, she roared out.
"Kushina! You are the most strongest 8 year old child I know! You are by definition no weak! That man who nearly molested you were years ahead of you. Nobody in their right minds would expect a 8 year old to be able to kill a missing nin!" Kushina stopped her self pity and looked at her sensei through her tears. They both stared at each other like that for a short while, then Tsunade pressed on.
"god damn it gaki, if you fought the 8 year old version of me, you'd slaughter me with ease, your not weak, that I'm sure, but nobody ever expected you to be able to beat everyone you met. There will be a point that you will find a person who can kick your ass. Just like today. You were outmatched from the start, yet your fine. That's saying something." with that, Tsunade gave another bear hug to her granddaughter figure. Kushina couldn't take it anymore and cried on her sensei's shoulder. Tsunade of course let her apprentice's emotions play out, patting her back while doing so. When they broke the moment, Tsunade turned to their client, who flinched under Tsunade's gaze. Tsunade then interrogated, picking up the small man while doing so.
"did you know these people?" the blonde sannin demanded. Their client flinched under Tsunade's rage. He immediately denied it.
"n-no Tsunade-sama! These people had nothing to do with our deal with Koyuki-sama!" Tsunade wasn't having any of it.
"Damn it you swine! My apprentice nearly got molested, and you are certainly-" she was stopped by her apprentice, who gently touched her. Tsunade stopped her questioning and Kushina said softly and weakly.
"it's fine sensei, this was just a random ambush, let's leave it at that." Tsunade stared at her apprentice in awe, and their client thanked her for her forgiveness. Tsunade recognized Kushina's forgiveness.
'by Kami, she's so much like Naruto.' Tsunade recognized Naruto's level of forgiveness and it seems Kushina inherited that. The older women smiled and released the puny client. The client then said.
"I'm deeply sorry about this, and I promise you that I will make it up to you two. I never meant to let the daughter of the Rokudaime to get hurt." the client then gave some cash, saying.
"this is the only thing I could possibly offer. Please take it." both Tsunade and Kushina accepted the cash. Then Tsunade spoke to Kushina.
"I saw those chains you made." Kushina then gave a flinching look. Tsunade quickly assured her.
"It's not a bad thing, I know what it was. You have a bloodline limit and I know who gave it to you. When we get back to Konoha, we'll explain this with your father, got that?" Kushina nodded. With that, the trio left.
When student and master returned home, they reported everything, from the ambush, to Kushina's near death experience, and Kushina's awakening of her bloodline. Kushina's father of course wanted the head of the missing-nin, which Tsunade brought back, and the missing-nin was quickly dealt with. Afterwards, both sannin and hokage investigated Kushina's bloodline limit. Tsunade and Naruto quickly found out that Kushina, the mother of Naruto passed on the chakra chain bloodline. Which awoken in Naruto's daughter.
Flashback end!
Kushina of course omitted several parts, like the identity of her sensei, to her discovery of her bloodline, their mission parameters, and their report and afterwards. During the retelling of her first mission, Kushina looked away from her team during her near rape experience, but when she told them of her sensei's rescue, she had real mirth in her eyes. Kushina will forever hold Tsunade in high regards, but everyone had different reactions.
Kakashi actually listened to his fellow jounin's first C-rank mission instead of reading his novel. He wasn't surprised that an 8 year old would react like she would. Any kunoichi would panic in the same situation. He didn't feel pity, but rather sympathize with Kushina. When the fate of the missing-nin was revealed, he sighed out.
Sasuke tried to remain impassive but failed. He turned around, but listened deeply. Kakashi noticed that Sasuke was actually trembling at the details Kushina gave. Kakashi also detected suppressed killer intent, but it wasn't much. At the part when Kushina was rescued, he stopped trembling and gave a sigh of relief. Nobody but Kakashi noticed.
Tazuna shown genuine shock at the girl's first attempt, he openly shown his pity, which Kushina didn't want. The old man also wasn't drinking his alcohol when the story was told.
Naruto wanted the missing-nin's fate in his hands. Like Sasuke, Naruto suppressed his own killer intent. He too wanted a piece of his nee-chan's would've been rapist. When the missing-nin's fate was told, Naruto thanked whoever was Kushina's sensei.
Sakura was the most shocked and hit at the story. She all the sudden had a huge amount of respect for Kushina, but a part of herself wanted to back out of the ninja program. She trembled at the details of Kushina's story, gave a breath of relief at her rescue and thanked herself that this never happened to her. Sakura began doubting herself after this story, thinking that she wasn't ready to face such a world. Shocking the audience, Sakura apologized.
"I'm sorry." Kushina waved it off.
"I don't want your pity, I gotten over that a couple years ago. It's in the past." she turned to Sasuke.
"thing could've gotten a lot worst, so don't start teasing people of their first mistakes. It was my mistake that I didn't flee to my sensei." once again, shocking the group. Sasuke turned to Naruto and said monotonically .
"I'm sorry." that snapped everyone's heads to Sasuke. Kushina went wide eyed and thought.
'I must have really gotten to him much more than I thought I did.' Naruto who blinked several times at what happened accepted the apology.
"it's fine Sasuke. Sensei's right. Thing's really could've been worse." both sensei of team 7 had one thought.
'are they getting along!?' Kushina especially. She never expected this nor did she expect to get to Sasuke in 2 months, nor did she expect her nii-san to change. Team 7 and Tazuna remained where they were for nearly an hour. till Kakashi reminded everyone.
"we still got a mission to accomplish guys." everyone got up without question and went on. Their thoughts lingering on Kushina's story. While they were walking Sakura asked a question.
"sensei? Who was your sensei?" Kushina quickly adopted a dark expression and answered.
"I'll tell you guys later." Sakura frowned but accepted that.
The team and Tazuna continued to walk their way to Wave. Till suddenly Naruto threw a Kunai into a group of bushes. Unlike the original time line, Sakura didn't scold Naruto, instead she asked.
"What's wrong?" Naruto looked at Sakura and said.
"I thought I sensed something." Naruto then investigated and it revealed a white rabbit, with a Kunai lodged on the tree, just barely missing the rabbit. Instantly Kakashi and Kushina understood that white rabbits don't exist in this season and deduced it was for a substitution. Simultaneously, both jounins cried out.
"get down!" team 7 dove for the ground and Kushina tackled Tazuna. Suddenly a oversize butcher knife spun over the group and lodged itself onto a tree. Just as quickly a shirtless figure flickered on top of the blade as a platform. Everyone got up and the figure said.
"Kakashi of the Sharingan. So… the Demon brothers had no chance against you." the figure eyed the group. Kakashi got back up and said.
"Zabuza Momochi, the demon of the mist. How nice to see you!" Kushina had a thought when Zabuza's name was announced.
'this is the demon of the mist? He has no eyebrows, what the heck?'
Eventually team 7 and Tazuna got back on their feet, and Kakashi asked.
"do you want to take him on Shina?" Kushina then scolded him.
"of course I want to take him, but I can't. don't you remember what kind of ninja I am?" Kakashi of course remembered that Kushina was a medical ninja, and they weren't supposed to fight in the front lines. With a sigh, he said.
"of course" he turned to Zabuza, who sneered.
"watching over brats huh Kakashi? Those little punks think their the real deal, what a laugh!" he then started laughing and sent in his killer intent. Making the 3 genins shake. With a shout, Zabuza said.
"Kirigakure no jutsu (hidden mist technique)!"
Suddenly a large mist covered the playing field. Instantly, Kushina shouted out.
"guard Tazuna-san!" the 3 genins quickly fled to Tazuna's side. The demon in the mist then sneered out from somewhere in the mist.
"hand over the old fool and nobody has to die." Tazuna tensed at the offer, but then Naruto shouted out.
"No deal!" a pause echoed through everywhere. Although everyone agreed with Naruto's outburst, they were going to help Tazuna. Kakashi then said.
"it looks like I gotta use this." with that, he revealed his hidden eye. The Sharingan. Zabuza of course sneered about it.
"ah the Sharingan, I'm honored to fight such a powerful user of it." Sasuke couldn't stare at his sensei, because of the mist, but thought out.
'Sharingan? How did he get one, isn't he a Hatake?' despite their bad situation, Sakura had the guts to ask question.
"what's the Sharingan?" it was Sasuke that answered.
"it's the Uchiha clan's dojutsu. A Kekkei Genkai, or bloodline limit, but how did sensei get one?" Sasuke's question was left unanswered because Zabuza's voice sneered out in every direction.
"larynx, spine, lungs, liver, jugular vein, collarbone, kidney, and heart. Which to pick, which to kill from. Oh the joy of choices." the genins trembled at the voice, Sasuke especially. Till both jounins assured the genins.
"don't worry guys, we'll protect you with our lives." all the genins stopped trembling at the announcement. That was when the demon of the mist struck. Just as suddenly, Zabuza appeared between all the genins and Tazuna and just as quickly, swung his sword. Luckily it didn't hit flesh. It hit 4 pairs of Kunai, 2 of which belonged to each jounin of Konoha. The red headed one said.
"geez Kakashi, I thought I had to save the day there." Kakashi sweat dropped and moved on the comment, saying.
"sorry Zabuza, your opponent is me!" moving one kunai from the four, he stabbed the weapon into Zabuza, who leaked out… water? Both jounins thought out.
'Mizu Bunshin (water clone)!'
Zabuza instantly burst into a puddle, but behind both jounins another Zabuza appeared, who like before, swung his mighty blade. Cutting into both jounins. One burst into another puddle and one into a cleaved log. Simultaneously, Sakura screamed, Zabuza's eyes widened, and all the genins and Tazuna made some space. Behind Zabuza, 4 Kunai knives were pointed at him. Kakashi said.
"it's over." Zabuza merely laughed and that Zabuza turned into a puddle. Yet again, behind both jounins, a third Zabuza knocked Kakashi into the waters, Kushina was left alone. Just a quick, Zabuza stood over Kakashi on top of the water's surface. With a shout he called out.
"suiton: suiro no jutsu (water release: water prison technique)!"
Kakashi was instantly surrounded with water. Effectively trapping him from the battle and shocking the genins. Kushina face palmed herself and scolded.
"come on Kakashi, where's your game?"
Zabuza and Kakashi both sweat dropped at the red head's display. The genins were shocked that Kushina wasn't scared. Just as quickly, Zabuza sneered out.
"so can you do little girl? Do you honestly think that putting on a jounin vest and your instantly a jounin?" Sasuke and Sakura always questioned their same aged sensei's real power. Luckily for them, they get to observe a little of what she can do.
"I'm a real jounin alright, but I like to think of my self as a Chunin that didn't earn the vest right." Kushina said cryptically. Sasuke and Sakura sent questioning glares at their sensei. Zabuza laughed.
"Chunin, Jounin, your just a little girl all the same. Your all gonna die! Suiton: Mizu Bunshin (water release: water clone)!" 3 clones sprung up from the lake Zabuza is standing over, and each charged at Kushina. Kushina then cried out.
"futon: daitoppa (wind release: great breakthrough)!"
The mist cleared and everyone can now see clearly. Kushina easily saw the water clones coming and knows that the clones only held 10% of the original's strength. Using that to her advantage, she slammed the ground with two fingers. Shocking everyone. The water clones evade the large fissure, two went to one side and one went the other. That was what Kushina was aiming for. Kushina then charged the solo water clone with great speed, again shocking everyone who had one unify thought.
'fast!'
Everyone other than Naruto never knew Kushina's top speed. Thus their reactions were reasonable, but back to the battle, Kushina engaged the lonely water clone, the water clone was shocked by her speed and that in it's self gave Kushina a wide opportunity for a chakra enhanced punch. The clone burst at the attack. Kushina then charged at the remain two clone.
This time around, the clones were ready for her. Both had the copies of the Kubikiribouchou (decapitating carving knife(there's so many names for this weapon that I really don't know which is which)) ready. One clone swung the mighty blade, only for Kushina block with a Kunai, enhanced with wind chakra, and also backed by Kushina's chakra enhanced strength easily blocked the swing with one arm. With her other arm, she gave a quick jab. Dispelling yet another water clone.
Once more, Kushina charged the last water clone, but this time the water clone was weaving through hand seals. This clone shouted out.
"suiton: suiryudan no jutsu (water release: water dragon bullet technique)"
The water dragon easily tore through the battlefield and into Kushina. Team 7 and Tazuna all were panicked over Kushina's fall. Zabuza was grinning widely over his kill. Only to be broken when a log was revealed when the water cleared. From behind Zabuza, he heard a voice.
"that was a real nice try, but it's over."
Zabuza's water clone was quickly engulfed in Kushina clones and just as quickly the water clone fell. Zabuza of course was shocked the most.
"How?" Kushina didn't want to answer, but said.
"you underestimated your opponent. If there's a next time, don't do it." Kushina revealed herself from the woods nearby and flickered to Zabuza's back. She then asked.
"release Kakashi, or die." Zabuza was between a rock and a hard place. He quickly gritted his teeth and released the water prison, then quickly leapt back. Kushina then said.
"Kakashi, I'm so disappointed in you. Go protect the genins." Kakashi panted out.
"ugh… fine… just don't… whatever…" Kakashi then walked over to the genins, obviously cheesed off about something. Kushina smiled then turned to Zabuza, who was furious.
"a little girl can't beat me! Sure you killed my clones, but I'm the real deal!" with that Zabuza quickly weaved through hand seals. At the same time, Kushina summoned a Kage bunshin and both weaved through her own hand seals. Both oppositions then shouted out at the same time.
"suiton: Mizu no Uzumaki no jutsu (water release: water vortex technique)!"
"Katon: Ryuka no jutsu (fire release: dragon fire technique)!"
"Futon: Daitoppa (wind release: great breakthrough)!"
The fire and wind attacks combined into a greater attack, easily evaporating the water strike. When the great fire wave nearly touched Zabuza, the fire died down. Leaving Zabuza intact, but exhausted. With that. Kushina threw several Kunai at him, with steel wires connecting them. Pinning the demon of the mist to the tree. Zabuza was about to curse Kushina but several senbon needles sunk themselves into the demon's neck, killing Zabuza. Kushina smirked and remembered this part. She loved it when she knew what was going to happen next.
Just then a cloud of smoke appeared over Zabuza. Revealing a hunter-nin. The hunter nin thanked Kushina.
"thank you for bringing him down. I was hunting him for several months and I would never have caught him if it weren't for you." Kushina accepted her thanks and suddenly Naruto shouted out.
"how come you killed Zabuza? Sensei was about to kill him herself, why stop her?" but it was Kakashi who told him.
"hunter nins are suppose to keep the body intact, Kushina might cause too much damage to the missing nin's body, so it was best to stop Zabuza with as little damage as possible." Naruto absorbed the knowledge and backed down. Kushina then turned to the hunter-nin and asked
"hey hunter-san? Can you cut his head for me? Just to be sure." the hunter nin tensed at the request. Kushina smirked.
'gotcha'
The hunter nin tried to flee with Zabuza, but a shout interrupted the ninja.
"Not so fast!"
Suddenly chakra chains emerged from Kushina, pinning the hunter-nin to the tree with Zabuza. Shocking the genins and Tazuna once more. The hunter nin instantly tried to struggle but It was futile. Kushina then walked up the hunter-nin and said.
"why did you run away at such a basic request? Aren't hunter-nins suppose to cut the head's of their target?" the hunter again struggled, only for the chains to tighten. Kakashi narrowed his eyes at Kushina, already making sense of the situation. However his genins weren't getting the picture. Sakura shouted out.
"Sensei! Stop it!" but Kushina shouted back.
"can it Sakura! This hunter is a fake! Hunter-nins are supposed to cut the heads off the body, it's simple procedure! If this hunter won't cut the head, then this nin's a fake!" Sakura shut herself up, and Kakashi understood the situation. Kushina then proceeded to taking off the hunter-nin's mask. Like before, the hunter-nin tensed. When the mask was removed. Kushina froze with her mouth wide open.
'oh Kami, he really is cute!' in the future, her father stressed that Haku was a boy that looked extremely like a girl. Kushina of course never met such a person, till now. Back to reality, Kushina felt her heart skip, and felt blood rushing to her face. She didn't understand what was going on. This was the cutest boy she ever met in her lifetime. Other than Sasuke, but his cold exterior turned her away. She was snapped out of her stupor when the fake hunter-nin said.
"please, kunoichi-san, I beg of you, spare Zabuza-sama. You can take me instead!" the false ninja pleaded. Kushina wasn't going to kill them. Instead, she used her chakra scalpel and cut all of the fake hunter nin's arms and legs and did the same to Zabuza. Then she made her still existing clone to carry Zabuza and herself carry the fake hunter-nin. Kushina then asked the faker.
"what's your name?" the fake hunter stiffened, well stiffen as you could with limping arms and legs and answered.
"Haku" Kushina smiled at her fortune and said.
"don't worry Haku, I'm not going to kill either of you today." the boy named Haku released his tension and allowed Kushina to carry him. She then called out to her team.
"alright guys, were going to take them as prisoners." Kakashi didn't question her, but Sasuke did.
"why? Their the enemy. They should-" Kushina stopped him and said.
"no, we are taking them as prisoners, I have a feeling that these two are going to help us big time." team 7 and Tazuna didn't question her and Tazuna lead them to their house.
Author's note: I promise you that next chapter's ending will be big. There will be changes, and there will be war. Maybe just maybe ill be evil and add a evil cliffhanger.