Just as he finished, Tazuna, escorted by five Naruto clones walked out of the woods. "Ah there you are." Kakashi said "We should probably get back to your…" he didn't finish as he collapsed, and would of hit the ground if Sasuke hadn't been standing right next to him.
"Is he ok?" Tazuna asked.
Sakura's hands started to glow green and she ran them along his chest. When she finished her examination she said, "Yeah from what I can tell he's just exhausted, but I'm not that good of a medic yet, so I could of missed something. But I think he just needs rest."
"Alright then, we better get to my house." Tazuna said as he led them to his house
In a few short minutes they had reached Tazuna's house. Tazuna quickly opened the door to allow Sasuke and Naruto, who were carrying kakashi to enter.
"Tsunami I'm home!" Tazuna shouted when he walked in.
A few seconds later a figure entered the room. "Ah, there you are Tsunami, these are the ninja that protected me." Tazuna said as he motioned to team seven.
She gave a wave "Hi, I'm Tsunami." she said.
"Not to be rude, but is there a room we can put Kakashi sensei in, he needs rest." Naruto said to tsunami.
"Oh of course, right this way." she replied as she quickly lead them to one of the guest bedrooms.
Sasuke and Naruto laid Kakashi down on the bed and then Sakura took over to give him a full medical exam.
"We should leave her to it." Naruto said as he exited the room, Sasuke following.
"Oh, by the way, I'm Naruto, and this is Sasuke." he said to Tsunami.
"Thank you for getting my dad back home safely." she said gratefully as they entered the living room where Tazuna was sitting on the couch.
"Its no problem, its our job." Sasuke replied.
"But still, thank you." she said, then made her way towards the kitchen, "I bet you all our hungery, how about I fix some dinner?"
"Sounds good." Naruto replied.
"I'll help, if you want." Sakura said as she entered the room.
"Oh you don't have to…" Tsunami said.
"I don't mind at all." Sakura replied.
"So is Kakashi sensei ok?" Naruto questioned.
"Yea he's fine, but I figure he probably wont be back up to full strength for at least three or four days, maybe more." Sakura replied.
"Right, well that just means we need to train harder so we can make up for his slack!" Naruto said with a bright smile on his face, causing Sasuke and Sakura to chuckle.
"Well I don't think sensei slacked off in that fight with Zabuza, but I do think we need to train." Sakura replied.
"You know, if you would of said something like that a few months ago, I would have reported you to ANBU thinking someone was impersonating you." Sasuke said with a grin.
"I'm not sure weather I should take that as a compliment or an insult…" Sakura replied although she also had a smile on her face. "well I better go help Tsunami."
"I guess there's really no point at guarding the house, at least not tonight, I figure whatever that fake hunter nin did to Zabuza, he'll probably be out for at least a few days." Sasuke said as he turned to Naruto.
"Yea your probably right, but just in case. Shadow clone jutsu!" he said and ten copies of himself popped into existence. "Better safe then sorry." Naruto said with a smile, they then both plopped down on the couch to rest.
Naruto and Sasuke were sleeping peacefully on the couch when Sakura and Tsunami walked in after setting the table.
"Oh there asleep, do you think we should wake them?" Tsunami asked Sakura.
But before Sakura had a chance to answer Tazuna jumped up off his chair, "Alright, dinners ready!" Tazuna said happily.
Naruto and Sasuke were instantly awake and running towards the table. As soon as they sat down they were eating. And were soon joined by Sakura, Tazuna, Tsunami, and Inari Tsunami's son.
Although dinner was mostly ate in silence, Sakura and Tsunami conversed a little and Sakura learned how bad of shape the Land of Waves was really in.
When dinner was over Naruto made a few clones and had them clear the table and wash the dishes, telling Tsunami she had already done enough.
They were all sitting outside enjoying the cool ocean breeze when Naruto spoke up. "Well it's getting kind of late, so I'm turning in." he said as he rubbed his eyes.
"Yea that's probably a good idea." Sasuke said with a yawn as he also went inside.
"I better go to, don't want to be tired all day tomorrow. See you two tomorrow." Sakura said as she also went inside to get what sleep could before they had to start training tomorrow.
The next day the entire house was woken up by Naruto and Tazuna banging together pots and pans, and making an extreme racket.
"So, how mad do you think they're going to be when they get down here?" Naruto asked with a smile as he turned towards Tazuna.
"Oh I think we should probably be running already." Tazuna replied with a grin that matched Naruto's.
Just as they finished, Sakura, Sasuke, and Tsunami trudged down the stairs and into the kitchen where Naruto and Tazuna were standing. "So whats the idea waking us up?" Sakura said sourly.
"well its already six o-clock, and we have training to do, and Tazuna has a bridge to build." Naruto replied cheekily.
"So why did you have to wake me up?" Tsunami nearly shouted.
Naruto just sheepishly rubbed the back of his head, "Casualty of war?" he replied.
Tsunami calmly reached down and grabbed a particularly heavy pan then looked at Naruto with a deadly look, "I'll show you a casualty of war!" she screamed.
Naruto immediately took off, Tsunami hot on his heals.
"Hey, wheres Inari?" sakura asked as she suddenly realized he wasn't there.
"Oh, that kid sleeps like a rock, I doubt he even knows whats going on." Tazuna said as he fixed himself a cup of coffee.
"Nobody should sleep that hard." Sakura said more to herself then anyone.
It was then that a grinning Naruto, and a panting Tsunami entered the room. "So whats up?" Naruto asked with a smile, seemingly oblivious to the death glare Tsunami was giving his back.
"I was just discussing with Sasuke about whether or not we should help tsunami out." Sakura said.
"Aww Sasuke is that true?" Naruto asked.
Said Uchiha just glared at him, clearly not a morning person.
"Fine be that way, I bet Tsunami's not mad at me are you?" he said as he turned to face her and was met with a icy glare.
"Aww Tsunami don't be that way." Naruto said as he gave her the puppy dog pout."
Tsunami's glare finally broke and she gave Naruto a smile. "You know, I never could say no to that look when Inari would give it to me, I guess thing haven't changed that much." she said to Naruto as she went to fix some breakfast for them all when Naruto stopped her.
"Why don't you let me make breakfast, that is if you don't mind waiting a little while?" Naruto said with a smile.
"I guess that's ok, but you really don't have to." Tsunami replied.
"No, I insist, just give me, oh about forty five minutes?" Naruto replied as he formed a cross seal and four clones popped into existence, making Tsunami jump, having never seen ninja techniques before.
"Oh my, are they solid?" she asked curiously.
"Just as solid as you or me." Naruto said, and as if to prove his point, one of the clones poked her.
"Wow! that's amazing!" Tsunami exclaimed.
"Yea, I guess." naruto replied while rubbing his head in a very Naruto fashion.
"Well, Sasuke Sakura, what should we do while we wait for my clones to make breakfast?" Naruto asked as he turned towards them.
They were about to speak up when a voice coming from the bottom of the stairs caught their attention. "How about plan your training regime." the owner of the voice turned out to be Kakashi, who was standing at the bottom of the stairs supporting himself with a pair of crutches.
Sakura was immediately over beside him, "Kakashi sensei, you shouldn't be up and moving around yet." she berated.
"I'll be find Sakura, I've been worse off before." Kakashi said as he waved off Sakura's concern. "Come on, we can sit down at the table." Kakashi said as he made his way, albeit with some difficulty because of the crutches, towards the table.
"Ok, so is there anything you three specifically wanted to work on?" Kakashi asked in his usual non-caring tone.
"I don't really have a clue." Naruto said with a sheepish smile.
"Yea me either." Sakura agreed.
"Why don't you just some up with something sensei?" Sasuke asked, although it was clear he wasn't over being upset about being woken up rudely.
"Ok, then how about this. I'm going to teach you all a new jutsu or two, but its going to be B or low A rank, so your going to need to have better chakra control. Have any of you ever heard of the kunai balancing exercise?" Kakashi explained.
Several hours later we find team seven standing in a clearing trying to balance a kunai on the tip of their finger, blade end down, needless to say, over the past two hours they had been doing this exercise they had many bloody fingers, but luckily for them, Kakashi said they should use dulled kunai until they got the hang of it, otherwise they might lose a finger.
well i know its short, and theres not hardly any action, but i think this is one of the better chapters, at least in terms of how wells its written. tell if you think so to, or im just losing it :)