The legend of the wolf and the fox Chapter 14: wavering matters, a naruto fanfic

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The legend of the wolf and the fox book 1:

The shinobi nations

Chapter 13: "wavering matters"

- (14:30 p.m., Nack's apartment) -

It had been two days since team 7 had departed for their first C-ranked mission and Nack was bored as hell. Who knew that not having Naruto or Obito around could be so boring? He had tried training a little to kill some of his boredom, but with no one to beat the hell out of (Naruto and Obito) it wasn't the same. So with nothing else to do he had been drinking and gambling for the last two days… what? He didn't have the motivation to go on a mission right now and Kakashi was out on some secret anbu thing that the bastard hadn't invited him… asshole…

So here he was now, on his bed with a little of a hangover, sore as hell because somehow he had ended up sleeping with Inuzuka Tsume… again, and if his clock was right, which probably was, he was late for his usual twenty bowls of ramen at ichiraku's. Deciding that he should really get up, Nack stood up and went to take a quick shower but as he made his way to his bathroom, the sound of knocking on his window stopped him.

He walked up to his window and when he opened the blinds he saw a messenger hawk staring right back at him with its head tilted to the side. For a couple of minutes the two of them stood like that in a resemblance of a Mexican stand off with neither of them backing out of the stare off, until Nack sighed and opened his window.

He grabbed the message but not before noticing the symbol on the hawk's collar 'the old man's personal messenger hawk?' inquired Nack as he saw the hawk fly away from his apartment. Still puzzled about the reason that would make the Hokage use his personal messenger hawk instead of sending an anbu to get him Nack decided to just read the message and see what this was about. About five seconds after he opened the message Nack's face turned into a blank stare as he read the one word that was written in the small paper over and over again.

And that word was… Naruto… that explained it all…

Sighing in defeat Nack went to his bathroom to get a shower and rid himself from the smell of alcohol and sex that he was sure he was irradiating, but before he entered to the shower he made one comment about the message "I swear the kid's luck is even worst than mine… it hasn't even been three days since he left!"

Ten minutes later Nack was out of his bathroom dressed in his usual black attire: black pants, his black and white sneakers that he had gotten from one of the continents that he had visited (he had put a durability seal on them to make them last this long), a black leather belt that had several storage seals in it, a black skin tight sleeveless shirt and an unzipped black sleeveless jacket with the kanji for storm on the back in white and on his head a black konoha hitai-ate (like Naruto on shippuden), he was about to step out of his apartment when he suddenly remembered something…

"Uhm… Tsume?" asked uncertain Nack, and when he got a groan as a response that came from his bed he added "could you lock the door when you leave?" a feminine hand wave in affirmation from his bed, Nack nodded and made his way out of his apartment and set out in direction to the Hokage tower.

- (Ten minutes later, Hokage tower) -

"Oi! Old man, what the hell kind of trouble did Naruto get himself into now? And is it just me or you also have the feeling that the brat probably got himself killed by now?" asked loudly Nack as he entered the Hokage's office via window, he was so engrossed in getting an answer that he completely missed the presence of the other six persons in the office besides the Hokage and the hidden anbus. He was about to ask again when a cough caught his attention and as he turned around he saw that not only team Gai was there but also two of the people who would probably kick his ass if he even hinted that Naruto was hurt… Rin and Kushina… and he had just made a joke about Naruto being dead… perfect…

Five minutes later a rather roughed up Nack stood in front of Sarutobi and a slightly more calm Rin and Kushina where standing behind him with team Gai who was looking rather curiously at the three older shinobi and wondering just why they had been called there.

"So why did you call me here, old man?" asked Nack in a more clamed manner, mainly due to the two women behind him.

"Well, I just received a message from Obito-kun stating that his squad has encountered some trouble and they are requesting back up, because apparently their mission was far more complicated that it was stated before…" informed the Hokage.

"Is Naru-kun alright?" asked a worried Kushina as Rin also make her worries known by nodding.

"Apparently yes. Obito-kun didn't say anything about any member of his team being injured but he did say that he they faced against a couple of missing-nin… the demon brothers if I'm not mistaken…"

"A couple of chunnin?" asked intrigued Nack.

"Yeah. But apparently from the information Obito-kun could get out after defeating them was that they had more companions" explained Hiruzen.

"Hm… ok, I'll go…" declared Nack before he turned around and made his way out of the office while he kept speaking "just tell me where they were going and I'll catch up"

"Wait a minute!" exclaimed Kushina as she grabbed Nack's collar "I'm going too!" declared the current Uzumaki matriarch glaring at Nack.

"Huh? Hell no! I'm going alone!" protested Nack loudly glaring right back at Kushina. The two of them stood there glaring at each other with no one else even daring to break them off, because after all who in his right mind would try to get in the middle of a fight between an ex-Jinchuriki, with extensive knowledge in Fuuinjutsu and on hell of a temper vs. an virtually immortal Jinchuriki, with extensive knowledge in Fuuinjutsu and a shit load of high ranked ninjutsu in his arsenal, who tended to solve his problem by blowing them up… literally…

"*cough* ahem!"

The two glaring shinobis turned robotically to look at the Hokage who just returned the stare with a deadpan expression, though if you looked closely you could see that he was panicking at the thought of having the two of them turn their aggression onto him.

"I was actually gonna send Nack-kun along with Gai-kun's team as back up-"

"YOSH! MY YOUTHFUL STUDENTS ARE MORE THAN READY TO UNDERGO IN THIS YOUTHFUL QUEST TO HELP OUR YOUTHFUL COMRADES IN THEIR TIME OF NEED!" exclaimed loudly Gai as he gave a good guy pose, with the sparkling teeth and the thumb up. As a whole the more sane humans in the office, namely: the Hokage, Rin, Kushina, Neji, Tenten, Nack and the four anbus that were currently guarding the Hokage, sweatdropped at the statement and cursed to themselves for being present during the outburst.

Having forgotten about the previous glaring match between Kushina and him, Nack stared at the old Hokage with a pathetic pleading look "please for the love of kami… tell me he isn't really coming with me…"

Sarutobi just looked away from Nack and Kushina could just pity the poor guy for his horrible fate… to go on a possibly week long mission with Maito Gai… Kakashi would have committed suicide if it was him…

"Uhm… as I was saying I'm going to send you… Nack-kun along with Gai-kun and his team as back up, you are going to meet Obito-kun's team in nami no kuni where you are going to assist him and his team until the end of the mission" informed the Hokage as he looked at team Gai and ignored the sobbing Nack who was on the floor banging his head against it.

"You should leave as soon as possible though, as we do not know how dangerous the situation has become since Obito-kun sent the message" declared the Hokage and Gai quickly turned around to face his students.

"YOSH! My youthful students do you have everything needed for a week long mission?" it was more of a loud exclamation than a question but the three gennin nodded their heads in affirmation "then let us set out on this youthful journey that will lead us to our youthful comrades that currently are in an unyouthfully dangerous situation!" exclaimed the self-proclaimed beautiful green beast of konoha.

At the last comment made by Gai, Nack just stood up, still crying anime tears, and glared at the Hokage who had the decency to turn his head as to not look at Nack's accusatory glare.

Finally giving up in making the old man back down from sending Gai along with him Nack sighed "ok. Fine… let's just go already…" Kushina, who had backed out from going as soon as she heard that Gai was going, gave Nack a look that said that she was trusting in him protecting Naruto and Nack gave a nod in affirmation, though he was still crying at the thought of probably more than a week with Gai around.

- (A couple of minutes later) -

"YOSH! LEE!" shouted loudly Gai as the assembled team stood at the gates with Kushina and Rin seeing them off "WE WILL GET TO NAMI NO KUNI IN LESS THAN AN HOUR! AND IF WE CAN NOT DO THAT THEN WE WILL RUN TWO THOUSAND LAPS AROUND KONOHA ON OUR HANDS! AND IF WE CAN NOT DO THAT WE WILL-" shouted the taijutsu specialist jounnin as his protégé looked at him in admiration; his other two students just sighed in annoyance.

"For the love of kami, Gai!" exclaimed Nack as he shook his head in exasperation effectively cutting off what was probably going to be an hour of stupid self imposed physical challenges that were to moronic and unbelievable to even complete "even at a normal shinobi pace it takes twelve hours to get to the coast! And about three more hours to get to through the ocean, and into nami no kuni!" he just couldn't believe this guy was a jounnin, granted Gai was one hell of a taijutsu fighter probably one of the best in the world… but he was so stupid and weird that you just had to wonder how in the hell did he pass the jounnin exam?

Gai stared at Nack for a couple of seconds before he exclaimed even louder "YOU ARE RIGHT MY YOUTHFUL RIVAL! ONE HOUR IS FAR TOO MUCH TIME! WE WILL DO IT IN HALF AN HOUR!"

"YOSH GAI-SENSEI! I WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN!" shouted one Rock Lee, completely ignoring the slack jawed looks on the rest of the people present, before he and Gai took off sprinting at amazing speeds.

As the two green cladded shinobis ran with the other three members of their team behind them, Nack looked into the sky and make a silent prayer 'kami-sama… if you're up there somewhere… could you please kill me? Or kill Gai if you can't kill me?... Or at least leave him brain dead? Even that would work…' said mentally the immortal as he kept running behind the two taijutsu fanatics along with Tenten and Neji.

'You're wasting your time there kid' said the ever helpful demon god known as Fenrir 'that dude is already brain dead! How else can you explain going around dressed like that?' well that certainly made a point thought Nack as they continued they run in direction to the coast.

- (Thirty minutes later) -

"god dammit Gai!" shouted Nack as he and five kage bunshins were currently restraining the taijutsu specialist from going back to konoha "I already told you that you could do your stupid penalty when we get back to the village! Now stop struggling and lets go!" shouted again Nack before he looked to the side at Neji, who was stopping Lee while Tenten tried to talk some sense into him 'why me…' thought Nack crying anime tears as he kept trying to convince Gai that going back to the village to do the two thousand laps around konoha was a bad idea as they needed to meet up with Obito's team.

As they kept struggling with the idiotic duo, Nack could only observe amazed that they had actually covered one quarter of the road to the coast… Gai must be a slave driver when training his gennins if the kids could still go on…

After a couple of minutes the more sane members of the team were able to calm the two rampaging green cladded shinobis and the group continued their trip to the coast… in the same ridiculously fast pace…

So a couple of hours later the five man team was on the coast and ready to cross the ocean into nami no kuni.

"hm… if we go in a boat it would take about three hours and even if we do that, it's not sure that we can get in without causing some trouble…" said Nack as he and the rest of the team were in the docks waiting for a boat to nami no kuni "according to Obito's information on this mission, the whole country is being controlled by Gato and it's almost impossible to get in without him knowing…"

"We could enter illegally, isn't it?" asked Neji as he activated his Byakugan and looked at a particular boat "I can see at least four empty rooms in that boat and we can surely sneak in without troubles…"

Nack stared blankly at the young Hyuuga before pointing lamely at said Hyuuga's sensei and teammate… who were currently in the middle of doing four thousand push ups as punishment for not making it to the coast in half an hour…

"Oh… I had almost forgotten about them…" muttered Neji.

"Then how about we run till we get there?" chimed in Gai as he kept doing push ups.

"No, that wouldn't work. You and I can make the trip but even if your kids make it to the other side they would be too tired to help with anything at all… and that's me being positive about them getting to the other side…" answered Nack.

"By air then?" asked Tenten uncertain about how that would actually go.

Nack's face immediately lit up in and a grin formed on his face as he came to the decision "yeah… that would work perfectly!" the rest of the team just looked at him, two of them (Lee and Gai) confused and the other two completely skeptical about it.

- (about forty minutes before, coasts of nami no kuni, with Naruto's group) -

As the small boat that had taken team 7 and Tazuna into nami no kuni made its way back to the sea, Naruto and the rest of their little group started walking into the land in direction to Tazuna's home, as they walked Naruto couldn't help but remember what had transpired about a day after they had left the village…

Ninpou: Flashback no Jutsu

Naruto was bored, they had been walking for over a day and it looked like they still weren't even close to the coast, but then again Naruto didn't even know if they were walking in direction to the coast… he should have really paid attention during geography class during the academy… but on the other hand, it wasn't Naruto's fault that the teacher was so freaking boring…

As the group kept walking, Naruto looked to the sides at the rest of his team, Sasuke was obviously as bored as Naruto because of the lack of action in this mission… they obviously didn't knew what a C-ranked mission normally entailed… Sakura was talking with their client about their destination, nami no kuni and finally Obito was… reading the same book that Naruto had seen Kakashi read all the time… just what in the hell was that book about anyway? Wondered Naruto, as he was sure that more than half of the male populace in konoha owned one of those books.

Well regardless of that Naruto just kept walking and looking around him to find something, anything that could kill his boredom. And just a couple of minutes later he noticed it, a puddle of water in the middle of the road… when the day was cloudless… just what kind of moron would buy that pathetic attempt to ambush someone?

Naruto looked at his team half expecting them to laugh while pointing at the puddle or something along those lines… but what greeted him was a talking Sakura, who was pestering Sasuke about something while said Uchiha just walked with his eyes closed in an indifferent manner…

'Are they serious?' thought Naruto as he turned to his sensei and saw him eyeing the puddle, obviously noticing the weak Genjutsu 'well at least Obito-sensei noticed it… but even so… how the hell Sakura and Sasuke don't notice it? And I'm supposed to be the worst at Genjutsu here? How ironic is that?' thought Naruto with a deadpan expression on his face as he and his team walked pass the obvious attempt to ambush them.

They hadn't made it even two meters away from the puddle when two figures jumped out of it and rushed at Obito… only to be met with pairs of kicks to the face courtesy of one Uzumaki Naruto and his clone.

The figures, now revealed as two kiri missing-nins were sent back a couple of meters by the strength of the kicks and when they regained their bearings they immediately rushed back using an impressive speed to tie the two Naruto's with the shuriken chain that connected the two ninja's gauntlets and with a quick pull they tore apart the two Narutos… or at least they thought that they did.

Two poofs of smoke alerted the two ninjas that they had been fooled as one of the Narutos became a simple wooden log and the other simply disappeared in a poof.

'shit!' thought the two missing-nins as they turned to their original target only to be met with other two kids, a black haired boy and a pink haired girl, with the boy rushing at them with a kunai in his hand and the girl standing in a defensive position in front of their target, the bridge builder, Tazuna.

As Sasuke came close to the two kiri shinobis he threw his kunai at the two of them and the two quickly dodged what they thought was an attempt to take them out, but this proved to be the wrong decision as the kunai implanted itself in one of the links of their chain and when the kunai impaled itself in the ground Sasuke kicked it deeper, which in turn stopped the retreating ninjas as their chain became tense and broke from the strain of being pulled in two different direction with so much force.

Having lost their balance, demon brother #1, who had his gauntlet in his left hand (Meizu), was met by a swift kick to the side of his face that completely knocked him out courtesy of Obito, who hadn't so much as blinked since the start of this 'surprise' attack.

On the other hand, demon brother #2 (Gozu), faired a little better as he managed to dodge the initial kick that Sasuke threw but received an upward kick from Naruto who had made a slide an crouched just below Gozu's chin (kind of like the way he kicked Kiba during his Uzumaki barrage in the chunnin exam arc), and with his balance now completely lost he had no way of dodging the falling knee to the face by a second Naruto or the final axe kick to his gut courtesy of Uchiha Sasuke.

A while later the two demon brothers were tied to a tree with chakra suppression seals on them and after confirming who their target was Obito went to have a little chat with Tazuna while the three gennin watched the pair of nuke-nin.

"So you guys are from kiri?" asked Naruto getting a glare from both of the currently tied up men "oh, right… you guys defected… I had forgotten about that…" muttered Naruto as he looked at the slashed hitai-ates in the foreheads of the two brothers.

There was a small silence in the group before Naruto spoke again "so… ever been in hi no kuni before?" asked the blond as he tried to kill his now recently returned boredom… don't get him wrong he had enjoyed their little fight against the nuke-nin, but he wished that it would have lasted longer…

As Naruto kept trying to make small talk with the captured former kiri-nin Sasuke glared at the blonde's back, he just couldn't understand how Naruto had been able to react faster than him; he was the rookie of the year dammit! How could someone like Naruto have reacted better than him! It was infuriating, and in Sasuke's mind just another prove that he wasn't getting as strong as he wanted to be…

Onto the third member of team 7, Sakura was simply amazed of how good Naruto was. Of course she had realized that Naruto wasn't an idiot when he had decipher the meaning behind the bell test but still, she hadn't expected that he was so strong and she was pretty amazed of how he and Sasuke had reacted immediately to the surprise attack from the demon brothers. And it was that thought that made Sakura realize that over the entire incident she hadn't helped in the actual fighting which depressed her as she started to feel left behind by his teammates.

'Do I really have what it takes to be a kunoichi?' wondered Sakura as she looked to the ground. And it was because she was looking to the ground that she failed to notice that Naruto was in front of her.

"You ok, Sakura-chan?" asked Naruto snapping Sakura out of her thoughts. Now, with the ridiculously large amount of times that Naruto had been smacked in the head by his pink haired teammate and the usual reasons of why this happened (mainly Naruto trying to impress her and ending embarrassing not only himself but Sakura too) he should have known that he had done the wrong thing when he saw that Sakura's face and his face were too close when he asked his question… and thus when Sakura realized this the situation ended like it always did…

*SMACK*

…with Naruto and his face buried in the ground…

As Naruto nursed his injured face, Obito walked up to the three gennins with a miserable looking Tazuna in tow.

"Alright kids, listen up!" shouted Obito getting the attention of his students "we are going back to the village"

"WHAT?" shouted not only Naruto but Sasuke too, which was so out of character that it surprised the rest of team 7.

Obito then explained that Tazuna had lied about the difficulty of the mission and the reasons why he had lied (I'm not writing that because you should already know them… also I'm too lazy to do it), at this Naruto immediately protested and yelled that they should help out, which was seconded by Sasuke, though Sasuke's reason had more to do with the probability of facing a strong opponent to test his prowess, Sakura agreed with her teammates mainly because what Gato was doing was wrong and because it was a chance to prove herself and to prove to her Sasuke-kun that she was the only one for him… yeah, because Sasuke was surely waiting for her to prove that she was worthy of him…

So with his team asking (read: demanding) to continue the mission Obito just sighed and pulled out a scroll were he wrote the situation and requested for back up.

He then made a couple of hand seals and muttered a quick "Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Jutsu)" and a small poof of smoke formed. He handed the message to his summon and muttered a quick 'to the Hokage' before another poof formed in the middle of the first one and Obito's summon disappeared, the whole time the creature remained covered by the smoke thus hiding what it was to the rest of the people there.

Ninpou: Flashback no Jutsu kai!

While they continued their walk in direction to Tazuna's home, Naruto couldn't but wonder just what was Obito's summon. He had asked their sensei about it several times since the incident with the demon brothers but every time Obito would answer that it was a secret… and that was pissing the hell off of Naruto.

After a few minutes of different theories about Obito's summon Naruto was snapped out of his thoughts by a sudden noise to the side. Now not a lot of people knew but Naruto had been trained by both Nack and Gai to react to the pretty much every movement, sound or change in the wind currents around him as if it was an attack, perks of being smacked around by people faster than him… WAY faster than him.

So reacting by pure instinct Naruto threw a kunai at the source of the noise and a small yelp of fear was heard as the others stopped their walking to look at Naruto questioningly.

Sakura walked to the bushes where the kunai had sailed and after moving it a little came to the sight of a small white rabbit, who was currently quivering in fear as the kunai had landed just a centimeter to the side of its head… it was amazing how much Naruto's marksman skills had improved since the start of his weekly training with team Gai… probably due to Tenten throwing weapons at him constantly and Naruto throwing them back to at the very least save some face, as his aim were nowhere near as good as Tenten's.

But regardless of that fact Sakura quickly berated Naruto for almost killing an innocent little animal.

"Naruto, what are you doing? It's just a little rabbit!" yelled Sakura, as Naruto panicked besides the little rabbit that had foam coming out of its mouth due to the sheer fear that had went through.

Obito on the other hand was more worried about other things 'a snow rabbit? But it's white… in this season? Snow rabbits are only white in winter season… so they're finally here…' thought Obito as he sharpened his senses preparing for any kind of attack.

He wasn't disappointed when a buzzing noise came from he trees and a big as sword came flying at them.

"EVERYONE GET DOWN!" shouted Obito, as he himself hit the deck in order to avoid the incoming sword. Naruto for his part tackled Sakura to the ground as soon as he heard the warning as Sasuke took care of Tazuna.

The sword then sailed through the air until it embedded itself into a tree and a tall man landed in the handle of the big zanbatou, he was a tall and noticeably muscular man with pale skin, short spiky black hair, brown eyes, and small eyebrows (so small in fact that it was easy to think he didn't have any). The man was wearing baggy pants with the striped pattern and mimetic wrist-warmers extending up to his elbows, with matching leg-warmers. His was shirtless with his chest only covered by a belt, that was obviously used to carry that big zanbatou that the man was standing in, the man's lower face was covered with bandages which in a face mask fashion and he wore a kiri hitai-ate sideways on his head.

"Momochi Zabuza…" muttered Obito as he looked up at the ex-kiri ninja "the demon of mist, What are you doing here working for a piece of crap like Gato?" asked Obito while his mind was running the scenario over and over again trying to come up with a way to get the kids out of there safe and fight Zabuza at the same time… he wasn't having much luck at the time as he wasn't exactly the thinking type, he was more of a kick-your-ass-and-be-done-with-it kind of guy… he really regretted having spent so much time with Nack because he knew that this was his fault…

"Hm… you look familiar, but I can't quite place were I have seen you before…" said Zabuza as he directed his gaze at Obito before he looked at the four people behind the jounnin "and the reason of what I'm doing here is quite simple… I'm here to kill that old man, so if you would just stand aside so I can do it we would avoid the slaughter that would occur if I were to fight you and your pathetic excuse for a team" taunted the kiri nuke-nin as he let out some killer intent to scare the kids and the old man, Which worked for the old man and the black haired and pink haired brats.

He was surprised though when he noticed that one of the kids didn't look scared at all, in fact the blond punk even yawned in apparent boredom… what the hell was up with that?, thought Zabuza in surprise.

Naruto yawned loudly as he stood besides a terrified Sakura, who was looking at him in utter disbelief as he didn't show any kind of reaction to the huge amount (for her obviously) of killing intent that was directed at them.

'doesn't he feel it at all?' was the thought in Sakura's, Sasuke's and Tazuna's mind as the watched Naruto boringly roll his shoulders with a blank look on his face as the blond gazed at their foe.

"Is that it? Because my nii-san uses way more killing intent when he is training me, so I'm already used to it by now…" commented Naruto and, not for the first time, Obito wondered just what the hell kind of training did Nack put Naruto through… and Sasuke and Sakura just wondered ,what the hell kind of older brother did that for training?

"hm… quite the interesting brat you got there…" with a swift kick to the handle Zabuza removed the sword from the tree and he dropped to the ground were he grabbed his sword and blurred out of sight only to reappear in front of Obito and slash at him.

Obito leaned back and avoided the attack before delivering a kick to Zabuza's torso and sending him railing back "you're going to have to try harder than that!" taunted Obito and when Zabuza charged again, he quickly activated his sharingan and taking a kunai in his hand he charged at Zabuza to met him in a resounding clang at the two weapons fought for supremacy, neither of the warriors taking letting the other advance.

"Hm… the sharingan, blue clothes and orange goggles? Now I remember who you are!" exclaimed Zabuza as he and Obito threw each other back and engaged themselves in a stare off gauging the other for any kind of opening "you are konohagakure's Aoi hono no Tatsumaki (blue fire tornado)!"

Obito smirked as he readied himself to continue "hehehe… you scared?" taunted the Uchiha and his answer was a slash that almost took hi head off were it not for the fact that his sharingan saw it coming "I'll take that as a no" commented Obito before he was forced to avoid another strike from Zabuza but as he did so he failed to notice the other Zabuza that hit him with a kick on the side of his head and sent him to the ocean that was close to the road.

Obito maneuvered himself to fall standing atop the water and was about to charge back into the fight when he was intercepted by the real Zabuza and he was forced to direct his attention to his enemy but not before he shouted one last thing to his students.

"Kids, take Tazuna-san and get out of here! I'll catch up later!" he was then forced to dodge a kick directed at his face and the he retaliated with a swipe of his kunai that was blocked by Zabuza's Kubikiribouchou (Decapitating Carving Knife). The two of them continued to exchange blows as they made it further into the ocean duking it out only using their physical abilities.

- (With team 7, Tazuna and Zabuza's clone) -

"Kids, take Tazuna-san and get out of here! I'll catch up later!" shouted Obito as he battled with the real Zabuza.

Immediately the three gennin sprung to action as Sakura and Naruto ran to Sasuke who already had a kunai in a defensive stance in front of Tazuna as he watched the clone who stared back in some kind of amusement.

As the group of three young shinobis and an old bridge builder stood in front of their enemy, Naruto's mind was running the possibilities and different scenarios that he could come up with to get Tazuna out of there and help their sensei in his fight. He under no reason was gonna left his sensei alone to fight, even if he knew that he wasn't gonna be of much help Naruto knew that if he could give his sensei any chance, no matter how small, to get the advantage in this fight, then he was going to do it.

"Hm? What's with this? Aren't you going to run away brats?" asked obviously amused the clone as he let out a wave of killer intent, and this time it dwarfed the previous one ridiculously as even Naruto froze by the sheer size of the killing intent "… or are you to scared to even move?" asked the clone in a tone that was full of bloodlust.

'Shit! What's with this! It's completely different from Nack-nii's killing intent! There's so much bloodlust… fuck no! Concentrate Naruto!' as Naruto was trying to overcome his growing fear the others in his group weren't facing any better at all. Sakura was openly crying as she could literally see her death in front of her, Sasuke was shivering in fear as memories of his clan's slaughter played over and over in his head, and Tazuna was the same as Sakura sans the crying.

Noticing the bad shape of his teammate and knowing that he wasn't so much better too, Naruto decided that they needed to make a run for it so he whispered as low as he could "hey Sasuke…" when he noticed the slight twitch from Sasuke that he took as Sasuke having heard him he continued "when I tell you take Sakura-chan and Tazuna, and make a run for it…" Sasuke's head snapped in Naruto's direction so fast that he thought he might have snapped his neck.

Naruto looked at him from the corner of his eyes as he kept speaking "I'll distract him long enough for you guys to get away and when sensei beats the real one we will catch up" it was a total lie and Naruto knew it but he also knew that out of all of them he was the one with the abilities to holding him back with the use of the kage bunshin no Jutsu (shadow clone Jutsu). But that didn't change the fact that he was screwed either way, but it was better if it was just him and not the entire team that died… not that Naruto was ready to die just yet, and if he was going to die he was gonna go with a bang and take the bastard with him… even if it was just a clone.

Sasuke was about to question Naruto's sanity when Zabuza's voice spoke…from behind them…

"Now what could you two be plotting, hm?" said Zabuza as he stood in the middle of the four of them. He quickly hit Naruto on his face with a roundhouse kick that sent the blond crashing into Sasuke and the two of them fell to the ground a couple of meters away, he then turned around to attack Tazuna but Sakura had pushed the old man away and they were already running away, which probed to be futile as the clone disappeared in a burst of speed and reappeared in front of the two with his Kubikiribouchou lifted above his head. He made a downward swipe with his sword and cut Tazuna from his shoulder to his hip.

*POOF*

But 'Tazuna' was replaced with a wooden log as well as Sakura and when Zabuza looked at the to the right he saw the four of them unharmed with the blond and the black haired kids standing in their respective battle stance.

"Ho~! So you decided to fight me? How naïve…" commented Zabuza as he readied Kubikiribouchou for another strike.

Meanwhile the three gennin were panicking major time.

"What the hell can we do?" spoke Naruto as he watched Zabuza readying his sword to charge again.

"we fight obviously!" exclaimed Sasuke with determination but the shaking of his hand said that he didn't had anything to back his words "we were able to defeat Obito, then we can surely do this too!"

If were not for the fact that he was panicking right now Naruto would have facepalmed at the sheer idiocy of that statement "you moronic Teme! We can take on a jounnin by ourselves! Obito-sensei wasn't even trying when we did the test! Or did you seriously thought that three rookie gennin would have defeated an experienced jounnin in a fight if the jounnin took the fight even a little seriously!"

Now that made sense, thought Sasuke and Sakura as they realized what this meant for them in this fight… they were so screwed…

"Then what can we do?" asked Sakura in desperation as she clutched her kunai tighter in her hands trying to reassure herself that they would be fine.

"Any ideas, teme?" whispered Naruto.

"None… you?" asked back Sasuke.

"One… but it's not really smart…"

"I'll take any kind of idea right now"

"Well then when I give you the sign I want you to launch a goukakyouu no Jutsu (great fireball Jutsu) at him" said Naruto as his hand formed his usual cross seal. Instantly five Naruto's popped into existence, each one with a kunai in hand.

The six Naruto's quickly charged at Zabuza who, once the blonds were close enough, swung his sword in a large horizontal swipe that cut through the first clone before the second one used his kunai to block and pumping chakra to his feet stuck himself to the ground stopping Kubikiribouchou's advance. Then two of the remaining Naruto's kicked Zabuza in his chest while another one kicked his hand making him loose the hold on his sword that upon touching the ground turned itself back into water.

Seeing his opportunity the five remaining Narutos (four clones and the original) charged at Zabuza, but unluckily for them they were too slow and Zabuza used the water that had previously been his Kubikiribouchou to create another clone that used his Kubikiribouchou to cut down three of the Narutos in a fast movement while the other Zabuza dispelled the last clone with a hard kick to the face.

Surrounded by the two Zabuzas Naruto would have cursed at his stupid idea, were it not for the fact that Naruto hadn't had an idea when he had attacked Zabuza. Because you see Naruto's idea was that being the 'Zabuza' in front of them just a clone, he was probably not as powerful as the real one and he could probably make an opening big enough for Sasuke to take care of the clone, but the problem was that he hadn't expected for the clone to actually be that strong and even be able to create another clone… thus the problem he was in now.

It happened in a mere moment. As the two Zabuza clones attacked Naruto, the first one (the one that had lost his sword) with a left roundhouse kick and the second one with a horizontal slash from the right, Naruto turned his head slightly to look at the Zabuza behind him but instead of looking at him something behind said Zabuza caught his attention. It was Sasuke, and he was holding the last seal for the Katon: goukakyouu no Jutsu (Fire Style: great fireball Jutsu), and in an instant an idea came to Naruto's mind and as the sword neared his body intent on cutting him in half Naruto jumped over it and stepped in it to make it pass his position. Unfortunately by doing this he left himself completely open and was hit in the left side of his body by a very, very hard kick that sent him flying for at least twenty feet were he crashed into the ground and rolled to a stop a couple of feet more.

It was in that moment that Naruto actually thanked that Nack didn't pull any punches, or kicks for that matter, when the two sparred, because the only reason why Naruto was still even conscious was because he was used by now to getting the shit beaten out of him, repeatedly he might add, and still getting up afterwards (though it was more because Nack would just beat him up again if he didn't stood up…bastard).

But the good part of getting hit by what felt like a kick from a horse more than a human, was that with their attack two things have happened that gave team 7 a slight chance to win:

N° 1: the second Zabuza clone (the only one with a replica of Kubikiribouchou) had his back turned to the other members of team seven and seemed like he was paying more attention to the failed attempt to cut Naruto in half than anything else.

N°2: the first Zabuza's was currently out of balance because of the kick he had landed in Naruto's rib cage and the amount of strength he had put behind it, he also couldn't see the actions of the rest of team 7 because the other clone was blocking his sight.

And it was because of this that none of the Zabuzas were able to anticipate the attack.

"Katon: goukakyouu no Jutsu (Fire Style: great fireball Jutsu)!" muttered Sasuke and he let out a considerable bigger fireball that sailed through the air until it collided with the first Zabuza that was completely incinerated by the attack. Unfortunately the second Zabuza jumped away the moment the attack collided with his comrade and landed several feet back, completely unharmed.

"tch." Sasuke had been hoping to take out the two of them in one shot because frankly he doubt it that they could get another lucky shot in this fight, and that fact that Naruto was still struggling to make it to a standing position didn't help them at all.

The clone glared at Sasuke and extending his right hand up forming a half tiger seal he used his left hand to form the same seal but in front of his chest before muttering "Kirigakure no Jutsu (Hidden in Mist Jutsu)" almost immediately a very thick mist began to form around the place making it almost impossible to see beyond two meters.

"Shit! Naruto!" exclaimed Sasuke as he realized that with the mist their blond comrade was alone and they had no way to help him without getting lost in the thick mist.

Somewhere in the mist Naruto stood, or more like laid as he had just been kick in the chest hard enough to take the air out of his lungs. The moment the mist had appeared Naruto had tried to get to his team but sadly Zabuza had saw him and had used his distraction to punch him in the face sending him railing back and from that point forward it had become like one of his training sparrings with Nack, with the exception that Zabuza had actual killing intent behind his hits and Naruto knew that this clone would beat him to death if given the chance. And as Naruto got kicked in the face, again, he wondered just were in the hell was their sensei and why hadn't he finished his fight already.

- (With Obito and the real Zabuza) -

Panting a little from the amount of chakra that he had used, Obito dodged yet again another dragon made of water and quickly went through a set of hand seals before letting out a stream of fire that took the form of a flying dragon and collided with his water counterpart in a big explosion of steam.

Frustrated Obito charged at Zabuza with a high kick to the face that the kiri nuke-nin blocked using the blade of his sword. As the two combatants continued to fight, Obito couldn't but help to remember how annoying fighting Zabuza had turned out to be.

At the beginning of the fight Zabuza and Obito had used purely taijutsu, in an obvious attempt to conserve energy from Obito and a way to test his opponent's skill from Zabuza. But after a couple of minutes they had ended in a stalemate as even though Zabuza was a little stronger physically, Obito could read his movement with his sharingan thus nullifying that advantage. Then they had went into an all out match of ninjutsu… and that's were things had gotten rather difficult for Obito, as Zabuza was probably his worst kind of match up with his Suiton ninjutsus against Obito's Katon and Fuuton affinity as it didn't matter if Obito used a collaboration Jutsu to attack because the fact that they were currently fighting atop water gave Zabuza enough advantage to push Obito further back.

"Fuck! My luck sucks!" muttered Obito as he went through another set of hand seals "Katon: Hosenka no Jutsu (Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu)" he sent out several fire projectiles at Zabuza who did his own set of hand seals.

"Suiton: Suijinheki (Water Style: Water wall)" as his name indicated a rather big wall of water rose up and stopped Obito's attack.

At the sight of his failed attack Obito cursed his luck, the constant use of his sharingan along with several Justus were starting to take a toll on him, the only thing that he found comfort was that Zabuza looked as tired as he. Obito was about to charge again when a sudden shout was heard.

"DOUBLE DINAMIC ENTRY!"

A second later two green blurs fell from the sky at incredible speeds with two kicks aimed at Zabuza's head and it was only by pure luck that Zabuza was able to dodge them, though when the kicks collided with the water they created a pressure wave that rocked the ocean and threw Zabuza's balance off giving Obito a chance that the Uchiha was most eager to take.

Pumping chakra to his feet Obito sprinted at top speeds towards Zabuza and kicked him high into the air then going through a quick set of hand seals Obito extended his hands in direction to Zabuza's falling form and shouted "Fuuton: Atsugai (Wind Style: Pressure Damage)" when the pressurized wind hit Zabuza's body it sent him flying across the water in direction to the shore where he crashed through several trees before his back hit a final tree and he slumped to the ground barely conscious.

As Obito made his way back to the shore he was joined by two green cladded males, he glanced at them with a dry look before he spoke "what took you guys so long?"

The taller male was about to answer before a large explosion went off from where Obito knew his team was "hold onto that thought for now…" commented Obito as the three males speed off onto the shore.

- (Two minutes before, with team seven and Zabuza's clone) -

About ten seconds into his beating Naruto had gotten bored of being on the receiving end so when Zabuza had punched him in the face… for the hundredth time… he took a dive and rolled away from the mizu bunshin. Coming to a rather crappy looking standing position, due to the fact that he was covered in bruises and his left arm was completely numb along with his right leg. Naruto tried to retaliate but a fast uppercut to the chin sent him right back to the floor, he slowly made his way to his feet as the Zabuza clone stared at him impassibly, Naruto was about to try again when a strong wind coming from the sea blew the mist away and a second later a kunai imbedded itself in the head of Zabuza turning it into water again.

"For kami's sake, kid! You look like crap!" yelled a voice that Naruto knew all to well "haven't you learned anything about fighting from me?" asked an amused Nack as he walked up to Naruto.

"Nack-nii? What are you doing here?"

"We are your back up, kid… surprise!" said Nack with a smirk on his face as two other people walked up to Naruto.

"Tenten? Unmei no Baka (idiot of fate)?" asked Naruto as Tenten immediately started checking the younger shinobi's wounds. Neji only twitched in annoyance at Naruto's nickname for him "does this means that bushy brows and bushy brows-sensei are here too?" asked Naruto as the group was joined by Sasuke, Sakura and Tazuna. A second later the two green cladded shinobis along with team 7's jounnin sensei landed beside the group.

"You guys done?" asked Nack to Obito without turning to look at them.

"Just one second…" said Obito as he shunshined to where Zabuza was trying to stand up. He quickly threw four kunais hitting Zabuza in his extremities "and that's checkmate… demon of the mist…" muttered Obito as he took out another kunai to finish the job.

But before he could do it two senbons hit Zabuza's neck and the tall nuke-nin slumped to the ground lifelessly. Using a quick shunshin Obito appeared besides Zabuza's body and checked for his pulse.

'He's dead…' thought Obito as he glanced at the person that had killed Zabuza "a kiri hunter-nin?"

"Impressive… you felt my presence…" commented the hunter-nin. As this happened the rest of the konoha group along with Tazuna had made their way up to them.

"I have been hunting for Zabuza for quite some time now…" said the hunter-nin.

"Hunting?" asked a puzzled Sakura.

"Yes. It is my duty to hunt down missing-nins such as the now dead Momochi Zabuza…" at the mention of Zabuza being 'dead' everyone looked at the body of the once alive kiri nuke-nin.

Nack, who had remained silent during the conversation and hadn't even glanced at Zabuza's body, stared at the hunter-nin 'from his height and the tone of his voice this hunter-nin is probably only a few years older than Naruto… and he's already a hunter-nin? This kid is obviously skilled…' were the thoughts going through not only Nack's mind but Obito's and Gai's too.

The hunter-nin then dropped from his position up in the trees and landed besides Zabuza. Then he slung one of Zabuza's arms across his shoulder and lifted himself up ward a bit "now I must dispose of this body, as it contains too many secrets…"

Nack immediately perked up at that comment. He narrowed his eyes and spoke "hm… interesting… I didn't know that kiri hunter-nins took the bodies of their kills with them… I thought that the protocol was to dispose of the body immediately after the kill…" he noticed that the hunter-nin tensed up at his words 'gotcha bitch!' thought Nack, but before he could so much as take a step the hunter-nin disappeared in a quick shunshin and a second later he couldn't feel his presence anymore.

"Damn, he got away…" muttered Nack as he turned around and started walking.

"well… let's get to Tazuna-san's house already… then we can figure this out, because right now I'm a little tired and I could really use a nap…" commented Obito as the other nodded and the group started walking in direction to Tazuna's house.

While they walked Obito glanced at their now larger group. Tazuna was walking ahead leading the way to his house, Neji was walking not too far behind him with his eyes closed in the typical cool guy pose, Sasuke was the same as he walked besides him, Gai and Lee were constantly talking about youth and some training schedule that sounded to stupid and exaggerated to be true, Naruto's wounds were being tended by Tenten and Sakura, with the latter berating Naruto about his recklessness, Obito had to admit that that sight looked really familiar but for some reason he couldn't quite place it.

He looked to his side to the final member of their group. Nack looked bored as hell, probably because he didn't get to fight anyone; he was walking while he looked around absentmindedly. After staring at him for a couple of seconds Obito remembered something.

"Oh yeah!" Nack and the others turned around to look at him "I forgot to ask but… how did you guys get here?" he then noticed that after he asked several things happened as the members of their back up team replayed the memory in their minds:

N°1: Gai blanched and looked ready to throw up.

N°2: Tenten and Neji smirked in clear amusement, though they looked rather stressed at the memory.

N°3: Lee looked really embarrassed about something.

N°4: Nack shivered ever so slightly as if he was remembering something.

Now these reactions happened because…

Ninpou: Flashback no Jutsu

"By air then?" asked Tenten uncertain about how that would actually go.

Nack then took them to a clearing and biting his thump he went through some hand seals and slammed his hand in the floor while yelling "Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Jutsu)" and in a big poof of smoke Nack's dragon summon, Kuro, appeared before they rather shocked team Gai.

"a-a d-d-dragon?" stammered Tenten as she stared in shock at the enormous mythical creature.

"Huh?" said Nack cluelessly as he looked at the surprised faces of team Gai.

"t-t-they a-a-are r-real?" said Lee with an exited look on his face, though he was still quite shocked.

"Who? Kuro? Of course he's real!" said Nack as said dragon looked around lazily "or is the fact that he is here in front of you looking all badass and lazy at the same time not a good enough prove that he exists?"

He let the question hang in there for a moment before he finally got bored of their shocked faces "*sigh* alright… come on, guys! Get on Kuro's back so we can get going already!" he shouted as he jumped onto the back of the enormous black dragon.

The four members of team Gai shortly followed his example and jumped onto the back of the scary looking creature "now hold on really tight 'cuz this fella likes to do things quickly!" said Nack in a playful tone getting dry looks from Neji and Tenten.

"You're such an idiot Nack…" was the only comment that Kuro did before he shot in to the air at an incredible speed that had the four members of team Gai screaming and Nack laughing like a maniac.

- (A while later, high in the air) -

"BLRUGHHHHH!"

"NACK! I SWEAR THAT IF THAT GREEN CLADDED IDIOT THROWS UP IN MY WINGS ON MORE TIME I WILL SKIN YOU ALIVE AND FEED YOU TO MY KIDS!" shouted an enraged Kuro as Gai had, yet again, emptied his stomach on its back and wings.

Nack just sweatdropped and looked at the spot on Kuro's back that was covered in vomit, which was practically its whole back and left wing 'from were do all that came from?' thought Nack… it was way too much vomit for it to be from just one person.

He then glanced at Lee who had had to change his green bodysuit for another new one after the kid had literally pissed his pants after Kuro's rather rough set off. Lee was looking anywhere but at his teammates, who just kept quiet about the whole deal. Tenten tried not to laugh, even if it was rather amusing, as she knew that Lee had a slight case of vertigo (that had probably magnified after this incident), but Neji on the other hand had out right fell into a laughing fit (which kind of scared Nack considering the usual attitude the Hyuuga had) it had taken the Hyuuga prodigy twenty minutes and a promise from Lee not challenge him for an entire month, to make the kid stop laughing and promise not to tell anyone about it.

Just a minute later Nack felt the chakra signatures of Obito and Naruto and grabbing Gai's and Lee's shoulders he whispered a quick "here's were you get off… help Obito…" before he literally kicked them off of Kuro's back.

Then he turned to the other two members of team Gai and spoke "you guys are with me-" but before he could even end his sentence Kuro threw them off of his back forcefully while glaring at Nack's falling form and yelling him one last time before he dispelled.

"NEXT TIME YOU SUMMON ME FOR THIS KIND OF CRAP I WILL PERSONALLY MAKE SURE THAT YOU CAN'T PROCREATE EVER AGAIN!" Nack protected his jewels with his hand by instinct as the three of them fell to the ground with Nack using a bit of wind chakra to break the fall

Ninpou: Flashback no Jutsu kai!

"I don't want to talk about it…" thought Nack as he covered his family jewels again when he remembered Kuro's threat.

Obito just blinked owlishly before he let the matter drop as he saw that the rest of team Gai didn't seem eager to talk at all.

- (Three hours later, Zabuza's lair) -

As Gato left the place with his arm broken due to the hunter-nin that was Zabuza's ally he grumbled and couldn't stop whishing that he could kill that bastard already but he knew that Zabuza's was still useful for him… at least for now…

He was suddenly brought out of his thoughts when his bodyguards dropped to the ground with three large slashes on their chests, as if they had been attacked by a rather large animal.

"What the-"

"Hohoho" laughed a voice that Gato thought he wouldn't hear ever again, or at least he hoped so "it's not nice of you to not pay us what you owe us… Gato…" said the voice of none other than mister insanity himself, Kiseichu, as he stood behind Gato with his usual cloak covering his features. With him another cloaked figure stood besides him, but this one was taller than Kiseichu, who was about 5ft 9, standing about 6ft 5 and had a larger built that dwarfed even a man like Kiseichu.

"y-y-you… w-w-what a-are y-y-you d-doing here?" stuttered Gato as he gazed at the two figures.

"Oh, nothing to important… just came to say hi and see if you have our money…" commented Kiseichu in an innocent tone that fooled no one.

"b-b-but I-I-I already paid!" shouted outraged Gato.

"Hm… yeah, you are right… but you only paid for half of our services…" said Kiseichu and Gato knew from his tone that the deranged man was grinning.

"You must be joking! I paid you over ten million ryos!" shouted Gato.

"Yes you did… but unfortunately our price has been readjusted and the new costs of our services are twenty million ryos…"

"b-but t-t-that's unfair! I only hired you because you said you would help me get control of these lands but you barely did anything!" exclaimed Gato, but he knew that it was pointless and if he wanted to get out of there in alive and in one piece he would have to pay.

Kiseichu kept quiet for a moment before he spoke again "I'll tell you what Gato… as I'm feeling rather… generous… at this moment. I'll offer you our services one more time…" Gato was about to speak but a kunai flew besides his head cutting his cheek "do not interrupt me…" ordered calmly Kiseichu.

"I couldn't help but hear that your little friend Zabuza failed to eliminate the konoha shinobis that came here to protect the bridge builder… so I'll help you out in this matter… when Zabuza is healed he will attack the bridge builder again… but this time, I and my friend here" he pointed at the large man behind him that hadn't said a word or made a sound so far "will help in getting rid of the opposition… for free…" Kiseichu grinned widely as he said this.

"What do you say?" he asked with mirth in his voice as he saw the shocked look on Gato's face.

"R-really?"

"Of course… I never joke around when it comes to business… especially when this business is important to my boss" said Kiseichu 'well not this business per se… but more exactly two of the people that came with the konoha team…' he chuckled mentally at the thought of his real reason to be here.

"So… do we have a deal…" when he got a nod from Gato his grin widened even more "perfect… I will be expecting the rest of the money by tomorrow morning…" with that he and the cloaked man disappeared as they sank into a black puddle of goo.

Gato stood there for what looked like ages, but were in fact just a couple of seconds, before he raced back to his mansion to gather the money that Kiseichu had said, after all he didn't want any problem with him as Kiseichu was probably the most insane person that Gato had ever met… and that was when he was being normal… he really didn't want to see him when he got angry or lost his cool…

- (Meanwhile, Tazuna's house) -

The konoha group had just arrived to the cozy house that was Tazuna's home and they had been greeted by the Tazuna's hot daughter, in Nack's and Naruto's opinion, Obito kept it to himself because he was married but he mentally agreed to that.

- (At the same time, Obito's house) -

Rin stopped in mid step gaining a confused look from Kushina, Anko and Kurenai as the four females had been walking out of Rin's home to go do some light training.

"Something wrong?" asked Anko in concern.

"I'm not sure…" answered Rin "is just that I suddenly got the urge to smack Obito-kun in the head… weird…" she then shrugged and the four of them made their way outside the house.

"Maybe he is having some fun with some girls in nami no kuni?" commented Anko only to get smacked in the back of the head by Kushina who shook his head in disapproval.

"No… Obito-kun wouldn't do that" said Rin in a deceptively sweet tone, right before the temperature dropped around forty degrees in one go "he knows what would happen to him if he did…" the other three women shuddered in fear at the aura that Rin was emitting and in their minds they prayed that Obito never got Rin mad or else he would probably suffer a fate worse than death.

- (Back with Naruto and the others) -

"What's wrong Obito?" asked Nack as he saw Obito shudder for a moment.

"I don't know why but I suddenly got the feeling that someone wanted to hurt me really bad… you think there's another ninja around here?" answered Obito.

"Hm… that's the 'monogamy sensor'…" commented Nack and Obito gave him a dry look.

"The what now?" deadpanned Obito and Nack shook his head in disappointment.

"the monogamy sensor is when someone that either claims to be your girlfriend or is already in a relationship with you is feeling incredibly jealous and wants to hurt you in way that cannot be explained with words…" said Nack in a lecturing manned and he noticed that several of the men present in the room were giving him skeptically.

"What?"

"That's such a load of crap…" muttered Obito as he walked to the couch in the living room and sat down with the other following his example.

"Hey! Listen to me! I'm being totally serious here!" shouted Nack as he angrily walked inside the house, where the others were talking between them happily.

Omake: "Obito's bachelor party pt. 1: the awakening"

"urgh!" groaned loudly Nack as he rolled to lying on his back, he blinked uncomfortably at the amount of light that hit his eyes and used his right hand to stop cover his face.

When he finally got used to the light he tried to sit up but failed miserably as the sudden action made him feel like throwing up "oh sweet kami!" said Nack before he rolled to a kneeling position and threw up into the ground. After two minutes of constant vomit Nack finally stopped and slowly stood up, though his legs felt like gelatin and his head was killing him.

"Fuck!" whined Nack as he walked ahead in what he now recognized as the Hokage mountain "my head is killing me… and how the hell did I get here? And what the fuck happened last night?" he asked aloud to no one in particular.

A moment later he remembered… Obito's bachelor party…

"Oh yeah… but that was in akaichiku (red district) town. That's about four hours from konoha… how the hell did I get here?"

"Urgh~!" a groan came from the left side and Nack turned to look at… Kakashi and Gai… both stark naked (except for Kakashi's face mask) and completely covered in pink paint hugging each other…

"What. The. Hell?" asked Nack as he blinked owlishly at the sight before looking at himself and finally noticing that he was in the same state, except that he had his boxers on.

Nack then looked to the right and gazed upon another weird sight… Sarutobi Hiruzen… the Sandaime Hokage, the professor, one of the most respected shinobis in the world… dressed like a drag queen… if only Nack had a camera right now…

But regardless of the highly perturbing and amused sight, Nack remembered that the four other people that had been with him at the bachelor party were missing, including the groom.

"Were the hell are Obito and the others?" he looked around but couldn't find them anywhere. Frowning he tried to ask his tenant about what had happened the night before but apparently even Fenrir had a hangover because of the sheer amount that Nack had drank last night and the demon god was currently sleeping.

Cursing his luck Nack proceed to wake the other three men up… with a kick to Kakashi's ribs that got him up immediately… only to fall back down when his hangover caught up with him and he vomited all over the still sleeping Gai.

Nack looked dully at the two before he turned around and walked over to the drag queen that was Sarutobi Hiruzen. He then raised one foot and brought it down in the Hokage's groin electing a sharp cry of pain from the aged kage, who then proceeded to curse him openly about it… right until he noticed how he was dressed… then he started panicking and looked around trying to find his clothes.

"hey guys!" said Nack as Hiruzen continued to panic, Kakashi was gaping in shock when he noticed that he was naked and realized just what he had been doing before waking up, Gai was still sleeping "hey guys!" said Nack again a little more loud this time, but when nothing happened, he stomped on the ground to get their attention.

"HEY GUYS!"

"Huh?" said Kakashi and Hiruzen at the same time.

"Does any of you remember how we get here, or what happened last night?"

The two shook their heads no.

"Well, fuck…" muttered Nack "I got bad news…" said the immortal Jinchuriki.

"What is it?" asked Hiruzen forgetting the fact that he was still cross dressing.

Ignoring the urge to throw up at the sight of the Hokage Nack answered "we lost Obito, Genma, Asuma and Ibiki…" at that Kakashi stopped gaping and looked around confirming the fact.

"Uhm… what time is the wedding, again?" asked slightly nervous the copy-nin.

Uh oh…

Now that sentence really got Nack worried. Obito was supposed to marry today at six in the afternoon if he remembered correctly and not only Nack was supposed to be the best man but Hiruzen was going to be the one to marry Rin and Obito…

Nack looked to the sun and calculated the hour in his mind "I'd say it's about ten in the morning…" said Nack.

"so we got around eight or so hours to find Obito and the rest and then get to the Hokage tower for that dumbass to marry Rin…" said Kakashi, before he looked at Hiruzen and nearly vomited again at the sight, he hadn't looked at the Hokage before, so he quickly turned around and spoke "I think that you should go home, Hokage-sama… we will look for Obito and the others and if we are late you could gain us some time to get there…"

Agreeing to Kakashi's plan the Hokage stood up and he was about to shunshin out of there when he spoke "as a warning… either of you mention this to anyone and I'll have you doing D-ranked missions for five years…" with that the Hokage disappeared in a swirl of leaf and Nack and Kakashi were left there with a still sleeping Gai.

As soon as the Hokage was gone Nack and Kakashi broke down laughing their asses off, remembering what the Hokage looked like. Five minutes later they had finally stopped laughing and Nack spoke.

"*chuckle* we *chuckle* we should really go… only kami knows where the rest of the guys are and we have to find them, especially Obito, as soon as we can or…" Nack didn't want to even think what would happen if they didn't made it on time.

"Agreed" said Kakashi before he looked at himself "where are my clothes anyway?"

"Beats me…"

"Whatever… I'll just steal some clothes from a shop later…" muttered the copy-nin nonchalantly "where should we start searching?" asked the Hatake.

"Hm… I think we should start from akaichiku town… after all being there is one of the last things I remember…" Kakashi nodded and Nack turned around to start making his way down the Hokage Mountain when Kakashi spoke again.

"Shouldn't we wake Gai up?" asked the last Hatake gesturing to their naked and sleeping comrade.

"Nah… if he hasn't woken up by now, then he won't wake up for quite a while…" said Nack before he added "besides… I don't think he would be of much help anyway…"

Kakashi nodded in agreement and with that the two of them made their way down the mountain at a relaxed pace as they still had a slight headache and felt rather dizzy form all the drinking and kami knows what, that they had done last night.

One thing was sure in Nack's mind… they were in for quite the adventure…

Current Character Stats (out of 5):

Nack Jackson:

Ninjutsu: 5

Taijutsu: 5

Genjutsu: 3

Intelligence: 3.5

Strength: 4.5

Speed: 4

Stamina: 5

Hand-seals: 4.5

Total: 34.5

(Special) Fuuinjutsu: 5

Zabuza Momochi:

Ninjutsu: 4.5

Taijutsu: 4.5

Genjutsu: 2.5

Intelligence: 3

Strength: 4

Speed: 4

Stamina: 4

Hand-seals: 4

Total: 30.5

Team Gai:

Maito Gai:

Ninjutsu: 3

Taijutsu: 5

Genjutsu: 3

Intelligence: 3

Strength: 5

Speed: 5

Stamina: 5

Hand-seals: 2.5

Total: 31.5

Tenten:

Ninjutsu: 2.5

Taijutsu: 2.5

Genjutsu: 1.5

Intelligence: 2

Strength: 1

Speed: 3

Stamina: 1.5

Hand-seals: 2

Total: 16

(Special) marksman skills: 4.5

Rock Lee:

Ninjutsu: 0.5

Taijutsu: 3.5

Genjutsu: 0.5

Intelligence: 1.5

Strength: 3

Speed: 4

Stamina: 3

Hand-seals: 1

Total: 17

Neji Hyuuga:

Ninjutsu: 2.5

Taijutsu: 3.5

Genjutsu: 2

Intelligence: 2.5

Strength: 2.5

Speed: 3

Stamina: 2

Hand-seals: 3

Total: 21

A/N: so next chapter is a big one, featuring the bridge battle along with the first fight between nack and kiseichu... DUN DUN DUN... what will happen? i don't know! and neither will you unless you leave a fucking review! muahahahahahahaha...

but seriously now... i'm getting rather discouraged about the fact that it looks like nobody likes the story and i'm actually thinking that, depending on how this chapter does, i will be ending this story once i finish the wave arc, which would be sad but, then again is more sad to write a story and not getting any comment about how you are doing it, wheter you are good at it or you are wrong about something.

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