Revised

A Follow up of our konoha 11:-

While Sasuke and Naruto were immersed in their training till they drop down, some other people were also developing and discovering new powers in themselvses :-

'Hinata Hyuga', Hinata had changed, she was not the same shy and timid girl from her past. She was tired of being weak, Naruto was right she needs to be strong for her sister. Hanabi, she was the cutest little thing Hinata had ever seen. Just by looking toward Hanabi, Hinata had sudden urges to protect her. Naruto had saved her two times till now, but he still didn't asked anything in return. That made him truly different from others, no-one would help you without a benefit for themself. Every time she saw his deep blue eyes she was mesmerized, Those eyes looked liked true visage of vast extending sea. It felt like he was a warm beacon of comfort and positivity for her.

She had been trained by her uncle for last 5 years. Although she was never weak or undeserving of her title from the beginning altogether, it was only known and understood by Hizashi and Hiashi that Hinata was not weak but kind-hearted, like her mother. After testing her affinity it was discovered that she was a water style user, those were not compatible with earth style jyukken. There were only a few water users in Hyuga clan till date, Hinata's mother was also one of them. Hinata had taken up on her, she was kind-hearted like her mother and her affinity matched with that of her mother. Currently there were only three people with water affinity in Hyuga clan. Hizashi, Hinata and a branch member names as Soka. Seeing this Hinata was taken up as a student under Hizashi and Hizashi was proud to say that she was his student.

Hinata had developed a new fighting style of her own with the help of Hizashi, instead of Solid Defences and Strength strikes, Her style used flexibility, agility, endurance and speed as its base. It used fast and agile movement and strikes as offence while Flexible dodging and blocks as defence for a long time using endurance. As a Heir she had to learn politics, history and all other subjects. By the end of five year she was one of the top four students in academy and definitely at a rank of Elite gennin, only exceeded by Naruto and Sasuke in physical prowess and Sakura in knowledge. What everyone didn't knew was that they were looking toward one of the future's iconic kunoichi trio.

'Nara Shikamaru', Shikamaru was a lazy ass idiot and everyone knew this, but only a few people knew how cunning and presumptive the said Nara can be.

Shikamaru had only two people who he looked up as his brothers, his big- boned friend Choji and the yellow haired loud-mouth troublesome idiot Uzumaki Naruto. He knew something was different about Naruto, unlike others he had noticed the looks Naruto got from civilian and he didn't like it. Nara clan was known for its laziness, geniuses, and their troublesome wives. It was no secret for his family that Shikamaru was almost unbeatable in Shogi.

In academy when Naruto started to display most of skills and rose up the ranks fastly, Shikamaru was also intrigued to show some of his skills and he did. He could've replaced Sakura from top four easily if he displayed all his wit, but that would be quite troublesome for him. So he became one of Top Seven students.

But after he became genin Shikaku told him something that moved something in him, a day after his graduation Shikaku told him about the burden of Naruto. Shikamaru knew something was off with the blonde, but to have Kyubi sealed inside of him was not what he anticipated. That day Shikamaru took a silent oath to become stronger to support his friend when he needed. It was what drove him toward his training and his current level. He was mid genin in combat, he didn't train in ninjutsus as that was unnecessary with his shadow release. So, he focused more on Taijutsu and after constant pestering by Asuma he had took up a chokuto that was able to infuse his shadow release. He would always support Naruto.

With Naruto and rest of Team 7:-

Tazuna was hiding something and that was confirmed to Kakashi. He was constantly looking around like a prey scans a predator's turf. Also, He had sensed someone following them and this was not common on a simple escort mission. Bandits wouldn't follow, they would attack head on. Only trained ninjas are capable enough to hide their chakra signature.

But Kakashi was an elite jonin so it was not so hard for him to pinpoint that two chunnin level ninjas were following them, and he was perfectly confident that either two or one of his gennin had also sensed their presence. That assumption was proved right when Naruto glanced toward Sasuke and Sasuke nodded back at him, they were capable enough to handle those two ninjas. So, Kakashi relaxed and let his guard down, an invite to the ninjas to attack them. Sasuke and Naruto quickly tensed up and put on their guards when they sensed a movement near by, but what surprised them all was that Sakura also pushed Tazuna behind Naruto and Sasuke and took a defence stance forming a triangle around Tazuna.

The two enemy ninjas moved toward them and Kakashi vanished from there to let his gennin handle those two, it was like Kakashi was never there.

'Demon brothers' of mist were rogue shinobis of mist, who had defected Kirigakure after a failed assassination on Mizukage with 'Demon of the bloody mist' Momochi Zabuza. It was a well known fact that these ninja had turned toward assasination missions for living, these type of ninjas were also called as Bounty hunter nins.

Meizu, the younger brother moved from right toward Sasuke. While, Gozu, the elder brother moved toward Naruto from another side, seeing this Sakura put Tazuna behind her to protect him from crossfires of the ongoing conflict.

Meizu ran at his maximum chunnin speed but Sasuke sharingan was easily able catch his movements. if you constantly trained with 'Copy ninja', this speed would look like a sloth's movement to you. Sasuke quickly intercepted Meizu movement by throwing shurikens at his path, Meizu changed his direction a little and kept on running toward Sasuke. What meizu failed to see was that there were wires connected to shurikens.

Meanwhile, Gozu was having hard time fighting the blonde genin. Naruto was blocking every claw strike from Gozu's clawed gloves with a kunai and was occasionally outclassing him to inflict physical damages. It was now confirmed to Gozu that the yellow-brat was no ordinary Genin, he was either a chunnin in disguise or a special case.

Meizu tried to swipe at Sasuke but his claw was stopped by shurikens, they were flying around him like they had wings attached to them. Meizu tried another swing but this time Sasuke's shuriken embedded into Meizu gloves and he lost his balance, this was just what Sasuke needed. Sasuke let go of his wires and made 5 hand seals fastly and then shouted "Katon: Fire shurikens jutsu", he again threw several shurikens and then lit them with fire shots from his mouth.

Meizu was struck with several fire laced shuriken all over his body, but that scene quickly changed to a log with shurikens attached to it indicating a substitution, Next moment a chain of events happened; Meizu tried to attack Tazuna, he was impaled in thigh by Sasuke's tanto and was surprisingly punched a solid chakra enhanced fist on shoulder by Sakura that sent him back collidin with a Tree.

With Naruto scenes were not so different, Gozu was kicked and punched through every angle by Naruto. Gozu's rogue taijutsu didn't stand against Naruto's Hummingbird style, Gozu's claw were also of no use in front of Naruto bo. It had a longer reach than short claws. Naruto quickly made work of Gozu and tied him to a tree trunk.

Kakashi appeared right beside Meizu and tied him to a tree with ninja wires. He then motioned Sasuke and Naruto to come with him, He needed them to learn about interrogating an enemy ninja. Sakura was a kind hearted person, So he left her to guard Tazuna.

After half hour and many gut-recking screams echoing around forest, Kakashi returned to the clearing. He wasbcleaning his hand with towels he brought with himelf, an emotionless Sasuke and a disgruntled Naruto followed him toward the place where Sakura was guarding Tazuna.

"So, when were you going to tell us about Gato and his intention Tazuna-san?" asked Kakashi glancing toward Tazuna.

"What's it about Sensei?" asked a confused Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke knew what was the whole scenario till now.

"Apparently, Tazuna-san here had deceived us into taking up a B-ranked mission in disguise of C-rank. He lied to us about level of threats, He is being followed by Jonin and chunnin level ninja for building the bridge" Explained Kakashi to Sakura.

"So, Are you gonna leave me? I have a daughter and a grandson, the whole village is under Gato's tyranny. Please help me, I promise I will pay in full when I am capable enough. Beside if you leave me here they will kill me and then kill my family" begged Tazuna for help.

"It's not about money Tazuna, my genins here are not ready for this type of missions. And I don't want to put their life in danger. So as the captain of my squad, I decide to..." Kakashi was expressing his plans, but was interrupted by Naruto.

"We want to continue this mission sensei, if we don't help him his family would die. And as a shinobi it's our duty to protect weaks and needy" said Naruto determinatly.

"I also support the Idiot over here Sensei" Said Sasuke pointing toward Naruto, and received a small glare in response of his idiot comment.

"I also want to continue this mission sensei, he need helps, and beside we chose this lifestyle by our own free choice" Added Sakura.

Kakashi contemplated for a moment and asked "Are you all sure about this? its not a child's play it is serious and you could die if you take one wrong step".

The three of his genins only nodded as answer.

Now, they were all moving toward Nami no kuni at an uniform speed, they had reached a river and can see a half bridge built across it. Tazuna rented a boat for crossing the river, it was half past the river when Team 7 saw how beautiful the bridge was, no longer they thought that Tazuna was boasting without being actually able to back it up.

They reached the shore and paid the boat-man, they were moving toward the town.

Suddenly, Naruto and Sasuke both threw Shurikens around the bushes, as they have sensed a motion over there. A moment later a panicked rabbit ran out of bushes toward them. Sakura picked up the rabbit and cursed both boys for scaring the little cute animal. Meanwhile, Kakashi had also sensed chakra and movement near bushes, and moreover this was a white hare that was not common in springtime. His sense of danger quickly alarmed him of incoming threat.

"Get Down on the ground" yelled Kakashi grabbing Sakura and jumping on the ground. Sasuke grabbed Tazuna and jumped on the ground, while Naruto was already on Ground.

~Swoosh...Swoosh...Swoosh~

~Thump~

A large sword with a handle of its 1/5th size was embedded in the tree behind them. Kakashi turned around to see that one man was standing on the Handle facing them, Momochi Zabuza.

The man was one of the seven swordsman of the mist, 'The Demon of the bloody mist'. This was the name provided to him for killing his whole academy classmates for graduation. He was a ruthless fighter known to attempt a failed assasination on Mizukage and then was able to run off from tight security of Mist. Zabuza Momochi was certainly a bad Omen, he was easily an A-Ranked shinobi. Zabuza shouldn't be taken lightly, he could and if given the chance would try to kill Kakashi.

But what Kakashi didn't knew was that Zabuza was also accumlating him, No one dared to mess with 'Copy ninja' Kakashi Hatake. The man was a living legend, he was known to have an arsenal of Thousand Jutsus, If Kakashi sees you as an enemy you're officially doomed. Kakashi Hatake was an elite Jonin of konoha and was a high level A-Ranked Shinobi.

"'Kakashi of the Sharingan', quite a bounty you've got on your head Hatake. You know as a mist anbu we were instructed to go for your head as soon as we see you. If you stayed on battlefield for even 10 minutes enemy's death was eminent. Babysitting here aren't we?" asked Zabuza rhetorically.

Sasuke was stunned, his sensei had Sharingan? Kakashi was confirmly not an Uchiha, He would confront Kakashi later but now he needed to focus on the enemy.

"'Demon of bloody mist' Zabuza momochi, never expected to see you doing such lowly assassination jobs. Team 7 form diamond formation and protect Tazuna, this one is out of your calibre. Stand down and protect our client" ordered Kakashi and took out his Chokuto.

Zabuza took out his sword but before that he made 6 hand seals that covered the entire clearing with fog. Kakashi signalled his team to be at attention and uncovered his Sharingan with his free hand before unsheathing his tanto and holding it in reverse grip.

Zabuza moved toward Kakashi with an impressive speed and swinged his sword in downward motion, that was blocked skillfully by Kakashi's chokuto. Kakashi also moved forward and tried to slice upward with his tanto in reverse grip, Zabuza moved back to dodge it and raised his foot aiming to hit Kakashi front on face. Kakashi wasn't a jonin for nothing, he retracted his chokuto a little and stabbed Zabuza's leg with his tanto straight up. Zabuza face was of pure shock but that quickly vanished and the Zabuza infront of Kakashi melted into water, A water clone.

Kakashi quickly backflipped a little to make distance and moved near his genins, Zabuza suddenly appeared inside the diamond formation but as quickly as he had appeared he was stabbed by swords in gut and a bo was at his jugular point. This Zabuza also melted into water.

"You have trained your maggots nicely Hatake, they are truly capable if they were able to defeat my Water clone that easily. So..bad, they would die before becoming something big" Chuckled Zabuza eviliy.

"You should focus on me more than them Zabuza, One slight mistake and your head will be rolling on ground. And keep them out of this or you wouldn't like me when I'm angry" threatened Kakashi appearing instantly behind Zabuza.

Zabuza tch'ed quickly and sushined on the lake near them, Kakashi quickly followed him and was now infront of him with his red Sharingan eye boring holes into Zabuza.

"It's an honour to see those eyes, but you're on my turf Hatake" Said Zabuza and made 5 hand seals before shouting "Suiton: Water prison Jutsu".

The Water around Kakashi swirled and formed a sphere around him confining him inside. Zabuza quickly shushined beside it, and took its control for better stability. He formed 3 one-handed hand seals and Two water clone rose from water around him.

"Bring the bridge builder to me" Zabuza Barked orders and both the clones moved toward the gennins.

After Kakashi, Naruto was second in command for leadership in battle situation. He normally acted with a little idiocy sometimes but with situation demand he could take a serious role and would look toward the best decisions.

"Sasuke you take on one of them and Sakura back him up while also protecting Tazuna-san, I will handle the other one" Naruto ordered and moved toward Zabuza's clone.

Sasuke and Sakura waited for the clone to move toward them, and sure one did. They quickly moved toward the clone, while Sasuke activated his Sharingan Sakura also put some chakra to her hands and legs for faster movement and Strong attacks. They knew even if it was a clone they need to go all out from beginning to be able to protect Tazuna and each other. Sasuke quickly engaged with Zabuza's clone, while Sakura looked over loopholes to take advantages of them. The water clones didn't have Zabuza's swords so they were limited to small ninjutsus and taijutsu.

Naruto was taking full advantage of these loopholes from the beginning by using his speed. Hebhad also formed 25 shadow clones to overwhelm Zabuza's clone. It was true that Zabuza was an A-Ranked shinobi but his clones only had his 1/10th chakra and they even lacked his sword. After hitting several times Naruto now understood that the clone would reform everytime it's harmed, he backed away with one of his clones. He formed another three clones with bo in his hand that replicated the bo also, he threw the three bo toward Zabuza's clone and before the clone could understand, he substituted with one of the bo then grabbed his original bo and extended it to stab Zabuza's clone right in head with a little chakra to stop it from reforming. This substitution was only possible due to the Summoning contract that Jiriaya put on Naruto's Bo, it gave him a type of easy bypass for substitution.

Meanwhile Sasuke simply put the clone under a strong Genjutsu he learned from Kakashi and Sakura used her strong punch to destroy it, that surprised Zabuza to no end. Konoha was known to prefer quality over quantity and that was the reason why they have won all three of ninja wars. It was known fact that even the combined forces of Kumo and Iwa were unable to destroy Konoha because of the high qualities and battle prowess of shinobis that Konoha nurtured.

These three genins disposed his clones like flies without even using a single ninjutsus, although they were 1/10 of his full power but still he was astonished by their courage and their fighting prowess. He was now struggling to hold Kakashi, Kakashi was exerting allot of chakra and force to get out of his water prison

The three genins gathered together and quickly devised a plan to relieve their sensei out of that prison, Sakura threw Shurikens laced with paralyzing herbs toward Zabuza. Zabuza dodged them all by jumping up without taking his hand off the water bubble, this gave time to Naruto and Sasuke for their combination jutsu. They quickly combined a "Suiton: Water bullet" by Naruto and "Raiton: lightning bolt" from Sasuke to form a bullet of water surrounded by bolts of electricity that headed toward Zabuza.

Naruto and Sasuke planned that the ball would Hit the water around Zabuza electroducting him. As for Kakashi, he was a Raiton user and could form a resistance jutsu around him.

Zabuz knew if this ball hit him it would electroduct him, he did what he had do unwillingly and leapt up freeing Kakashi in process. As predicted by both the genins, Kakashi quickly casted a resistance jutsu arounf himself after he saw their combination heading toward him.

Zabuza was inraged, not only did these brats destroyed his clones like flies but they also forced him to free Kakashi. They would pay dearly for this.

He readied his sword for attack and was about to run toward team 7, When Kakashi suddenly appeared infront of him with his chokuto.

"You're my opponent Zabuza, let's get real" Said Kakashi and attacked Zabuza with his sword, Zabuza parred his strike and went on offensive on Kakash. Strikes and blocks were flowing fluently between the two nins, Kakashi had speed but Zabuza was strong with his long big sword. Zabuza swinged his sword downward, Kakashi tried to block this with his tanto but Kubikiribōchō was a big and strong sword. It broke the tanto in two halves. Kakashi backflipped and made some distance in between, Kakashi was not on the same as Zabuza in Kenjutsu, yet.

Zabuza boastfully thought that Kakashi was weaker than him, he sheathed his sword back and went on to fight with Kakashi through Ninjutsus, and that was proved to be a bloody mistake.

Zabuza started to make hand seals fastly, but what he didn't knew was that Kakashi was copying all his handseals with same speed.

"Suiton: Water dragon jutsu" yelled both Kakashi and Zabuza.

Two huge dragons made of water rose from water with yellow shining eyes. They both attacked eachother with immense force, the force of collision destroyed them in process.

"How could you...? You're just a..." Zabuza tried to say but was cut-off by Kakashi's voice.

"Copy monkey, Hatake" Kakashi completed his sentence, this inraged Zabuza who went on to form more hand seals looking toward Kakashi, He was shocked to core when he saw his own image behind Kakashi repeating his hand seals.

This few moments of shock for Zabuza proved beneficial for Kakashi, he completed his hand seals and yelled "Suiton: Great Water waves", huge waves of water rose around Kakashi and rushed toward Zabuza. The waves hit Zabuza with great force knocking him out, he somehow grabbed a tree trunk and stood up with wobbly feets.

Naruto was astonished, he knew his brother/ sensei was strong but this was just awesome. Kakashi copied each Jutsu of Zabuza with efficiency, he knew Sasuke was also capable of that but on a low scale as he was not experienced and trained like their Sensei.

Naruto's respect and awe for his brother rose up high. He also felt a little jealous of Kakashi's Sharingan, even with his Shadow clones it took him at least two weeks to completely understand a jutsu. And here Kakashi would have to only uncover his Sharingan and he would be able to cast same Jutsu as his opponents.

Meanwhile, Sasuke was also in awe he hadn't seen Sharingan used like this. Unlike Naruto, he had seen the small genjutsu casted by Kakashi by just looking in Zabuza's eyes. He was both proud and felt respect toward Kakashi, his sensei was using his clan's dojutsu, a tool was used like a formidable weapon. He was taught by Shishui that Sharingan was only a mere tool and nothing else, a tool that you use to protect your village and its people.

Sakura was again feeling small, she had developed by leaps and bounds in her training but still her teammates were stronger than she was, and now her sensei was just displaying his fighting prowess. The power that her sensei displayed was terrifying in its own right, as per her assumption he could easily demolish 2 or 3 ninja squads by himself.

There was only one thing on Tazuna mind, 'Are these shinobis even human?'.

"How can you defeat me? Can you look into..." again Zabuza's tired and rash voice was cut off by Kakashi.

"Can I look into Future? Yes, I can see future Zabuza, and you future is death" Said Kakashi and moved toward Zabuza to finish him, but before he could do any thing three senbons strucks Zabuza neck and seemingly killed him.

Kakashi looked toward the other side to see a ninja of his gennin's age with mist anbu mask, He was holding more senbons in his hand ready to fire.

"Yes...you're right. His future was death. I am sorry to take your kill, but I was following him for weeks and it was a good opportunity for me to end his traitorous life. Now, if you don't mind I will dispose his body in somewhere private" Said the hunter nin, grabbed Zabuza body and shunshined away.

Kakashi would've asked several things if he was in good health, but his body was showing symptoms of Chakra exhaustion and Fatigue. He covered his eyes again, his vision became blurred and he understood that he can't continue this journey.

"Sasuke you're the leader from now on till I wake up.." Said Kakashi and collapsed on ground. Naruto quickly made two shadow clones who picked Kakashi up to carry him toward their clients home.

"How much far is your home Tazuna-san?" asked Sasuke looking toward Tazuna, Sasuke was always selected to lead in escort and protection drills by Kakashi. Sakura always leaded medical emergency drills with Naruto leading in battles.

"Not much, just a mile or two from here" Said Tazuna.

"Ok, we will travel by shinobi speed, Naruto make two more shadow clones to carry Tazuna-san here" Sasuke ordered.

Before tazuna can refuse he was being carried by Naruto clones towars his house.

Unknown to them, a pair of blood red eyes were following them stealthily...

Disclaimer:I Don't own Naruto; All rights are reserved to Kishimoto.