A/N: Beginning of the Wave mission! I thought of a way to make Naruto MORE badass. It will happen later.

"Normalish talking"

"Normalish thinking"

"Demonic talking"

"Demonic thinking"

Me! The author if I have something to explain

The betaer, if he has anything to explain

(A/N: Me saying something irrelevant)

(B/N: Betaer saying something irrelevant)

Enjoy!

[Sunday, Mission hall]

"Team seven today you have your first C-ranked mission. Prepare for a month-long trip. Send Tazuna in." the aged Hokage said, who was able to be there thanks to the kage bunshin he had doing paperwork.

An middle-aged man(old by ninja standards) walked in, looking extremely drunk. "Who're the brats? I asked for a team of ninja, not three kids! The blonde one looks like he can't even hold a knife right!"

Naruto vanished and appeared behind him with a sword to his throat and a kunai uncomfortably close to his nuts. "I suggest not insulting those of unknown skill and ability... You might live longer..." he spoke in a voice that was completely devoid of all emotion.

"Fast!" thought all save Sarutobi.

"O-Okay" stammered a more-then-slightly panicked 'awesome bridge builder' as Naruto removed his blades, some how making the odachi disappear inside his jacket.

'Gotta love expansion seals' he smirked before dragging the other four people to the gate.

[A few hours after leaving the gate at civilian pace]

Naruto saw a puddle on the ground... when it hadn't rained for weeks. "Hmmm... let's see if Kakashi saw it..." Naruto started using ANBU hand signs.

Kakashi saw this. "How does he know ANBU hand signs? You know what... why am I even surprised...?"

The conversation, all in ANBU hand signs, translates as follows:

"Sensei, There's a puddle. It's a very poor disguise."

"I know. Wait for them to attack one of us to see who they're after."

"...Fine, but can I torture them for information after we capture them?"

"What?... You spend too much time around snake...and yes..."

A few seconds later, two men dressed in camo pants, black cloaks and face masks like the ones that are worn by rain nin with gauntlets on opposite arms that were connected by a chain covered in barbs. They immediately jumped toward Kakashi, and cut him apart with the chain.

"One down..."muttered one, then they appeared behind Naruto.

The second one said "Two down." and then they struck.

Naruto flipped backwards over the chain and threw a shiruken and a kunai, pinning the chain to the tree. Then, taking out a roll of ninja wire and connecting it to two shiruken he threw one at each of them. The shiruken wrapped around them both, pinning their arms to their sides.

Kakashi appeared in a puff of smoke and eye-smiled "Good job Naruto. I trust you will catch up? We need to be going...and have a talk with the client."

Naruto nodded, then dragged the two into the woods. All that could be heard were screams of agony.

A few minutes later Naruto walked back to them. "I got their heads, took the gauntlets and any useful items and burned the bodies. Anything I missed?" he asked casually.

"Not that I can think of. Intel?" Kakashi asked.

"They were working for Zabuza Momochi, who was hired by Gato to take out Mr. Super Bridge Builder here. Zabuza also has an apprentice only known as Haku, who has the hyoton bloodline and is extremely skilled with senbon. Gato will betray Zabuza. If we can just hold off fighting him until Gato betrays him, we can take him back to Konoha with us. They have the protection of the Uzumaki clan, previously of Whirlpool country. I am the last, therefore the head, and I can give them protection from the council and their stupid shit."

"Hmmmm... A decent plan... Okay, so we won't kill him, and Konoha gets a new master swordsman."

"And the last of the hyoton bloodline, which was thought to be extinct."

"True... Okay guys, prepare for combat with an A-class missing-nin and his apprentice, who is skilled with hyoton ninjutsu and senbon."

"...And how do we do that?"

"You don't. I do."

"Then why did you tell us to prepare?"

"I don't know..."

"Then shut up and let's go."

"Yes...sir?" (A/N: How did Naruto get someone who outranks him to listen? He's awesome.)

[A few days later]

The group had arrived at the body of water that separated Fire Country from Wave Country. Tazuna had hired(read: begged) someone to take them across while Kakashi and Naruto water walked near the boat to increase the group's overall reaction time.

When they reached the other side, they continued walking in silence.

[An hour or so later]

They were walking in silence when Naruto suddenly threw a kunai into a bush giving a poor white bunny rabbit a panic attack. It frantically patted its self making sure everything was in one piece before passing out.

'A white rabbit? But it's fa- "FUCK! EVERYONE GET DOWN!"

While Naruto shouted a giant zanbato, about a foot wide and around six feet long with a half-circle hole on one side and a circular hole near the tip, was seen spinning towards them at head height. Naruto pulled down Sakura and Sasuke, and Kakashi pulled down Tazuna.

The zanbato stuck in a tree, and standing on it was a man with vertically striped pants, camo boots and arm warmer...things, bandages covering the lower half of his face, and a mist hitae-ate centered above his left temple.

"Sharingan Kakashi..."

"Zabuza Momochi, A-class missing-nin and former member of the seven swordsmen of the mist... Here for the old man?"

"No-brows-sensei!" shouted Naruto from a few yards away.

"Hey! What are you doing on this mission? I thought you would have at least made chunin by now!" said Zabuza.

"Well, you know how politics are, especially with the hot redhead."

"True, true..."

"So... I never got to really fight you... No holding back? I'll even release my seals..."

Zabuza started laughing. "This is gonna be great! I'll get to see how much better you've gotten! Now let's do it."

"Juuryoku fuuin, KAI! Yokuatsu fuuin, KAI! (A/N: literally: gravity seal, release! Suppression seal, release!) Now... Which first? Ken, tai, or nin?"

"Only one way to do this..."

They both brought their right fist straight up, then brought it down three times.

"JAN, KEN, PON!"

Naruto held his fist out, while Zabuza held out a flat palm.

"YES! I finally won against him in something! HA! TAKE THAT, LADY LUCK!"

As soon as Zabuza said that, he got struck by lightning. On a sunny day. With no clouds.

Naruto was rolling on the ground laughing.

"SHUT UP YOU STUPID KID!" shouted Zabuza. "Well, I'm still choosing first. And I chose Ken."

"Ken it is..." Naruto drew his sword, an odachi length blade with an orange handle. Zabuza un-stuck Kubikiri Houcho from the tree where it was lodged and they jumped towards each other, laughing the whole time...

Omake: Haku's bunny.

"NOOOOOOOO! THEY'RE HOLDING CHAPPY HOSTAGE! WE MUST GETS BACK CHAPPY!" screamed Haku in his/her/it's head after she replaced herself with her precious...other-wise know Chappy the Rabbit, ruler of the tenth level of hell and infamous mass-murderer of kittens and puppies.

A/N: Wave mission! Heheheh Naruto is fighting Zabuza... I'm expecting that to last all of next chapter.