A/N: Sorry for the delay me and my beta ran into a lot of personal crap so yeah, here is the next chapter. There is a note at the bottom of the page.

Elysium

Chapter 21

Wave

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He stood next to the north gate waiting for his team to arrive. It was strange, he had to admit. It felt so awkward to stand at the gate waiting for a mission he was going to be in charge of. Nothing had changed really, well not entirely but he was trying to push those thoughts and feelings away from the front of his mind. Scratching his head in frustration just seemed to make it worse.

What was he supposed to do now?

His mother was working for an organization that was trying to capture him. God, he wanted to punch something and the arrogant Uchiha wasn't exactly bolstering his resolve. When will their other teammate get there? Sasuke and he were told to be at the gate prepared and ready so she had to be told something close to it. Everything just didn't seem to be going right for him these days.

"Naruto!"

Snapping out of his thoughts to turn and see Ten-Ten running towards him with a smile and a wave. He weakly waved back. He let his hand drop; when she came up to him with her smile, making him feel a little better. She had her hands behind her back and was rocking back and forth on her heals as she stared at the blonde.

"So I here there is a congratulations in order."

Naruto raised his eyebrow at the girl in confusion.

"I hear that a certain blonde was going on his inauguration mission today. Wave country huh, pretty awesome."

A scoff from their side drew their attention to the emo who had his arms crossed. "Like this idiot would be in charge of me."

"Actually Sasuke, Naruto is in charge and if you fail to listen it would be considered insubordination." The three turned to see Kakashi standing on the gate arms crossed with a "U" shaped eye.

"You can't be serious Kakashi. I'm a freakin' Uchiha I-."

"Will follow orders or face the consequences." Kakashi's eye smile fell as he jumped down and landed in front of Naruto. "Sakura will be here in a minute she went to go pick up the client from the tower."

"Ah, so that's where she was. I was about to send a clone to find her." Naruto turned to Ten-Ten. "So how's the team?"

Ten-Ten's smile fell as she cocked her head to the side and brought her finger to her lip. "Well Lee won't shut up about his 'E-R-N'." She giggled when she watched his eyebrow raise in Question. "His 'Eternal Rival Naruto'. He won't shut up about you."

"Great, now I got Lee the Youthinator coming after me." Naruto's face dropped into a grimace at the thought.

Ten-Ten released another giggle as she looked at him. She watched as the little smile he wore barely touched his lips. "Is everything okay Naruto?'

"I-." He looked away towards the gate before letting loose a breath. "Can we talk about it when I get back home? I really just need to think about it first."

"Yeah, sure." She stepped back and began to rub her right arm with her left hand. "As long as you promise to come and talk to me about it."

"Yeah sure." He turned to her with a big smile. "It's a promise."

Her smile returned and her arms returned behind her back as a blush painted her cheek. "We'll I got to go. I am already late as it is to our team meeting. But, I'll see you when you get back right?"

Naruto nodded and watched as she waved excitedly as she ran off. His grin dropped immediately and he went back to waiting. Thinking about his reaction when he was told that was his mother.

Naruto fell to his knees. Minato was by his side in an instant. "Tou-Sama, who were they?"

Minato tightened his fist by his side. "That was the 2nd swordsman of the seven swordsman of the Bloody Mist."

"And the girl?"

Minato sighed looked back at the spot where the two were. "That was Sagara Mai the Bloody blade of the Amekagure." He sighed looking at he boy who was looking at his hands. "Also" Naruto looked up at his father. "She is known as the Daughter of the Uzukage of the land of whirlpool. The Red Scar of Konaha. Uzumaki Kushina… and your mother."

Good thing he was close or he wouldn't of been able catch his soon who passed out. He woke about ten minutes later with blinking blue eyes. His father was hovering over him with concerned eyes.

"I had a horrible dream didn't I?"

He watched as his Tou-Sama looked away. "I'm sorry it wasn't a dream."

And he had almost lost his mind. "Shut up."

Minato looked at his son whose blonde locks were covering his eyes. "Son?"

"Shut up! The Kaa-San you told me about would never treat me like that. Would never turn her back on me- on US! My Kaa-San is dead remember! That's what you told me!"

"Naruto, I'm sorry but it's true. I-"

"I hate you. Tou-san I hate you very much."

He had apologized the next day for his behavior, but he could tell from the way his Tou-Sama was acting that the cut was already made, and it was deep.

He stopped his thinking when he heard the sound of a burp. He looked over and saw an old man standing next to Sakura with a jug of sake in his hand. His lazy eyes scanned over the current Team Uzumaki with a skeptical look.

"Great, I got a kid that looks like he's going to kill himself any moment, a girl that won't shut up about some guy, and a blonde haired midget. Sigh, I knew I should have gone to a different country for help."

Sasuke scoffed before pushing off the gate. "Let's go team." He began to walk out the gate not caring that he wasn't really the one in charge.

Naruto sighed shaking his head before nodding to Sakura, who was still blushing from the drunk's little observation of her, to follow Sasuke with Tazuna. Naruto stuffed his hands in his pocket and began to follow.

"Naruto." Naruto stopped and turned to Kakashi who was looking at him lazily. "Remember that this is your Chuunin Inauguration, and that your Anbu Inauguration is also during this mission. Remember to not let it get to you."

"Kakashi thanks, but this won't be the first time I have killed." And with that Naruto left the smiling Kakashi behind.

Naruto frowned as he headed down the road. He knew this would happen. That she would act like the day of the funeral didn't happen that it didn't mean anything and he resented her a little for it. He scoffed and almost stopped in his tracks when he saw the small puddle that was in the middle of the road.

How stupid. He sighed as he walked past the puddle and let some powder slip from his hand and fall into the puddle. About a couple seconds later two people dressed in Kiri Chuunin standard uniform appeared on both sides of him.

"Now!" one of the two spoke only for the other to begin coughing and scratching at his throat. "S-"

The man, worrying for his brother, didn't see the blonde strike out with an elbow to his throat, sending him into a coughing fit along side his brother. Naruto stepped out of the chains that had fell to the floor around his feet. He bent down and grabbed the guy, who must have inhaled his powder that he dropped into the puddle, and slammed his back against a tree.

"Hewo."

Sakura and Sasuke looked at Naruto confused as he acted like he was talking to a little kid. They were surprised that they didn't have to do anything as the man spilled his beans to Naruto about whom he worked for and who he was after. Naruto just seemed like he knew already and just let the man slid down the tree before knocking him out. The brother soon following.

Naruto dusted off his hand and trousers before he turned to the bridge builder "Tazuna, we need to talk."

"Hehe, so we do."

The boat ride was anything but exciting. Sakura swore she was gonna vomit on more then one occasion as the navigator of the boat seemed to be more worried about the fog then which way they were going. And the fact that Sasuke and Naruto both seemed to not be talking to her. It had been surprising that Sasuke had been talking to her lately, but she was starting to think that it was because of Naruto. Not in a sense that Naruto told him to talk to her, more like Sasuke had to prove in 'everyway' that he was better then Naruto.

She eyed the blonde for a minute. He was just staring out ahead of the boat as if he could see the shore. She guessed it was partly her fault, heck she was ignoring him too ever since the start of the mission. Well could you blame her? Sasuke was here and he was giving her the attention she always wanted. What more could a girl ask for?

She sighed knowing that she needed to fix this before it turned around and bit her in the ass. Taking a deep breath she began to slowly scoot closer to Naruto, hoping beyond hope that Sasuke wouldn't see her. When she got to a certain distance she let out a breath she didn't know she was holding. Shaking her head in hopes that it would clear her thoughts, she reached out her hand to tap him on the shoulder. Only to pull back when he spoke.

"We got company." He turned to the two with him and looked between them. "Alright, there are two of them and they probably suspect us to be a bunch of weak Genin."

Sasuke scoffed leaning back to glare at the shore that was now visible from the fog.

"Let's prove them 'right'."

Sasuke and Sakura turned to Naruto in surprise. Sasuke could only smirk at the 'Uzumaki Grin' that always spelled trouble.

Always

Zabuza was a man with many titles: Demon, Prodigy, Legacy. However he never was the type to kill children for no reason, even if they stood in his way of a mission. Oh, don't get him wrong, it wasn't because he had morals, Zabuza didn't even know what morals were. It was because they were weak, not a challenge at all.

So when he saw the short blonde and the two other children behind him with Tazuna trailing slowly behind, he was not happy. He was told that "Team 7" was going to be on this mission, and if his records were correct, which they always were, then "Team 7" was led by one 'Copy Cat Kakashi'. So where was the bastard?

He scoffed, not liking the situation one bit. Getting ready to leave and give the signal for Haku to finish the job, only to stop when his caught something. Those eyes. The bright blue eyes that he had been searching for. A challenge that he knew would end with him starring up at those blue eyes and knowing he was defeated by the greatest. It was a shame for Iwa, who say that they hate the man so much; they were fools for not being able to tell that this was his son just by looking at him

Well he couldn't have Kakashi, and he knew that the Hokage wasn't here. So he might as well settle for the next best thing. Watching those beautiful eyes dim and hopefully watch, as those eyes begged for life. He pulled back his zanpakto and launched it to the unsuspecting Genin.

He let out a disappointed sigh as the four humans fell to there death without much resistance. He was quite disappointed that the son of the "Yellow Flash" had fallen so, dishonorably. Shaking his head and letting a grin slide across his face he smiled when he realized the implications of killing that "Man's" son. It meant that he would be coming after him, Zabuza the Demon of the Bloody Mist, would be sought out by that man.

However, his thoughts were cut off when he felt the edge of a blade slide up against his neck. He smiled as he realized that the great Kakashi must have followed his students and now wanted revenge.

"That wasn't very nice, Zabuza."

Zabuza was surprised. Why did the Great Hatake Kakashi sound like a thirteen year old?

"What did my Kage Bunshin ever do to you?"

That was when a smirk came across his face as he watched the "dead" bodies vanish in a poof of smoke. "Namikaze Naruto, what a pleasure."

"You know my name, must be my father, huh."

"That, and you're the boy who stopped the Sound invasion single handedly."

"Wow, what they say is true, the story get stretched quickly."

"You're right, you're not good enough for that." With that Zabuza jumped to the left, away from the blade, and rolling once he hit the ground. He jumped over the blonde, who appeared with a horizontal swipe of his sword, and rolled grabbing his blade. "Now let's see how good you are."

He charged forward with his Zanpakto raised to his right side. With a horizontal slash he watched memorized as the blonde jumped over the blade and kicked him square in the face. He used the moment of the kick and back flipped. Landing on his feet he heard the boy running after him. He thrust his blade forward only for him to feel like his blade weighed a tone. Looking at his blade he saw that the blonde was running across it and towards him.

He dropped the handle and spun sending a kick into the teen's stomach and sending him across the field as his other hand caught the hilt of his weapon. He watched as the blonde rolled back on to his feet with weapon raised to the right of his head horizontally to the ground.

"I'm going to enjoy, watching your life fade from your eyes."

"And I'll enjoy disappointing you."

"HAHA!" Zabuza pulled his blade back like a javelin and threw it at Naruto. He quickly did some hand signs "Suiton: Suiryudan No Jutsu!" a water dragon raised from the lake a shot forward catching the hilt of the weapon and pushing it faster and harder toward Naruto.

Naruto quickly did some hand seals and slammed his hand towards the ground. "Kaze Joheki!" s pillar of wind shot from Naruto's hand, towards the ground, and shot him in the air narrowly missing the projectile weapon. To bade he didn't avoid the back lash. The sword slammed into the tree line causing an explosion and sending Naruto forward and towards the awaiting back hand from Zabuza who delivered it with a sadistic smirk.

Naruto was sent spinning away from Zabuza and slammed into the ground hard. He pushed him self back up with the help of his blade. He watched as Zabuza walked out of the new tree line with his zanpakto in hand. Not waiting for the man to prepare himself he swung his blade with a shot. "Heijin Kaze Tsuin!" The two blade of wind shot forward and towards Zabuza who placed his blade in front of him to block the on coming attack. He felt the first attack hit then the second and was about to look from behind his blade when he was sent back through the tree line.

Zabuza shook his head and stepped out only to freeze when he saw what was in front of him. 'Was that the remains of-of.'

"Kisame was a better match."

Zabuza froze when he saw the blade. If Kisame's blade was destroyed then that meant. He looked up and watched as the boy shot forward with his blade raised above his head. "No the cut on Kisame's blade don't match the edge of the boy's blade, but there is no mistaking it. That's Fuijin."

A green blur shot from the tree line to their left and unleashed two senbon needles, only for them to be knocked down by two Kunai as the blur was tackled to the ground by a blue blur.

"ZABUZA-SAMA!!"

Zabuza was shaken from his shock and tried to dodge but it was to late. He stumbled to his right as he dropped his blade from his left hand and reached for his right arm. Only for him to grab thin air. He watched in morbid fascination as his right arm landed a few feet behind him. He turned back to the blonde who was now breathing hard and looked like he could barely move.

"Y-Y-YOU BASTARD! I'LL KILL YOU!"

Zabuza grabbed his blade with his other hand and charged forward only to look to his right as a mirror made of ice appeared next to him. He heard a grunt to his left and the next thing he knew he was being tackled into the mirror and he was no longer in the field by the lake.

Naruto starred at the spot that Zabuza was just in and then to the arm that lay on the ground. The bastard just vanished. "What the fuck just happened?" He looked over at Sasuke who had tackled the other guy and watch as the Uchiha rolled on the ground holding his crouch and mumbling mommy.

He cringed only imagining what had happened to him. Sakura and Tazuna came out of the tree line and he had to blink to stay focused on them. Sakura ran to Sasuke to check on him before she stood in front of Naruto. And watched as he kept blinking.

"Naruto, are you alright?"

"Sakura. I'm glad you are here right now."

"Why?"

"'Cause," He swayed a little as he stepped closer to the pinkette and stumbled and in doing so made her take a step towards him. "I'm going to need you to…"

"Yes," She urged as she took another step closer to him.

"To catch me."

"Wha-?" her question was answered when he fell forward and passed out.

"He fought pretty hard didn't he?" Tazuna asked as he eyed the passed out boy. "Well my home isn't far now so lets go."

Sakura nodded as Sasuke limped up next to her. Sakura placed Naruto more efficiently on her back And began to wonder why she felt so warm , not noticing the silver chakra lining Naruto's body.

"Interesting," Kakashi thought from the tree line, placing his kunai back in his pouch. He was about to step in until he saw Naruto's mind game. He watched the Uchiha limp over to Fuijin that lay on the ground and then to Kisame's broken sword. "A C-rank gone to A. That boy's luck really sucks."

He smiled under his mask as he followed behind the group quietly. He knew this was bound to be interesting.

A/N: Yes I know, Zabuza should of kicked his ass. He was toying with Naruto and it came to bite him the ass in the end. The shock of seeing Kisame's broken sword put him in a stupor. He might not of likes Kisame but Kisame was still his leader and most likly the strongest. Any ways if you have any questions just hit me up. and thanks FPV for being my beta. And check out his C2 it's under my page called well written stroies. It's all shapes and sizes of stories revolving around Naruto.