(A/N) I'M BACK! BE HAPPY!

Kakashi fainted the second the Hunter-nin was out of sight. Sasuke propped him up with a sigh.

Sakura sighed as well, taking charge. "Naruto, three clones, one henges into a stretcher. Kakashi sized stretcher, mind you."

Naruto nodded, three clones popping into existence and one turning into a stretcher that the other two picked up. Sasuke arranged Kakashi on the stretcher, and they set off.

Sakura kept a close eye out, and Naruto had clones in a swarm around them.

They made it to Tazuna's house without any problems, and once there, Sakura quickly set Kakashi up in the provided room, leaving the unconscious jounin to recover.

"Oh you poor dears," Tsunami said, hand on her chest. "It's the least we can do to feed you and allow you to rest here."

Sakura smiled politely. "Oh, we will help with collecting food, I hope you don't mind."

"You're so sweet," Tsunami said gratefully.

Naruto beamed. "Just self sufficient! And with Tazuna's story about how bad things are here, we couldn't possibly at least help a bit!"

"No worse than D-ranks," Sasuke muttered as his bit.

Kakashi woke the next day, hobbling around despite Sakura's protests.

"Now, do you know how to climb trees?" Kakashi asked.

"With, or without hands?" Sakura asked skeptically.

Kakashi drooped. "Walk on water?"

They nodded.

Now Kakashi just flat out pouted at them. "Now what am I supposed to do with you?"

Sakura's face moved to a mischievous grin. "You could show us the hand signs for a jutsu, and see if we can get them right. You wouldn't perform it, just instruct us, as your chakra reserves have not recovered yet."

Kakashi eyed her. "And you wouldn't blow yourselves up?"

Sakura's smile turned innocent. "Would you rather the boys were left to play around? At least this way, you could teach me a water jutsu to put the fires out."

Kakashi sighed, and conceded. Sakura vetoed any fire jutsu for the boys, so he handed out Suiton jutsu to all three, it would keep them busy, at the very least.

Naruto got Suiton: Tsunami's Wrath, one Kakashi had gotten from seeing Kushina use it to absolutely destroy a battlefield a few times. Including one time she used it in conjunction with a toad's oil, and Jiairya set the entire area ablaze. It was a water jutsu that required a kami ton of chakra, so was perfect for him. They were also near an ocean, so that helped a lot.

Sakura got Suiton: Water Bullets, which should let her put out fires. Kakashi was pretty sure he got that one from some random Kiri-nin. Kiri-nin were famous for their water ninjutsu, after all, and Suiton: Water Bullets was pretty simple.

Sasuke got Suiton: Water Dragon, the one Zabuza had used. Used more chakra then Sakura's, but significantly less than Naruto's. Honestly, Kakashi was pretty sure that Suiton: Tsunami's Wrath could only effectively be used by Uzumaki. Tobirama Senju had been able to use it, he knew, and maybe his brother as well, but other then that, he didn't really know of any outside of the Uzumaki clan that could use it to its fullest potential: being stuffed full of so much chakra, any normal elite ninjutsu based jounin would find themselves on the edge of death from chakra exhaustion.

Kakashi got to sit on the bridge and call suggestions down at them while he watched the bridge, and his cute little genin at the same time.

"A bit more chakra, Naruto, Sakura. Sasuke, doing good, just keep trying and it won't explode. You're treating it like a fire jutsu, and it is certainly not!"

Not that he hadn't expected that to come from his Uchiha student, fire and water were opposites, after all.

"Are you sure, sensei?" Naruto called back up. "What if I overload it?"

"You won't, in fact, this jutsu is designed to just suck up chakra, you can't overload it, trust me," Kakashi shouted down. "Just overload it with as much chakra as you can!"

Naruto frowned in concentration, doing the hand signs once again, the ocean in front of him raising up in a massive swell, creating, well, a miniature, or not so miniature, tsunami. A second and third ones rose up as well, and a truly miniature one rose up after that before the ocean calmed.

"Great! Now we just have to get you to do it on land!" Kakashi shouted down, giving a thumbs up to the boy. He couldn't really see the gesture, but smiled anyway. "Later though, just keep doing it on the water, and see if you can manage six waves!"

Naruto beamed at him, and turned back to his task.

Sakura got a mischievous grin on her face, and fired her next volley of water balls at Naruto's back, causing him to lose focus and get swept up in his own technique, disappearing underwater for a few seconds and getting washed out father out in the ocean. "Pay attention to what's going on around you!" She trilled, only to get knocked off of the surface of the water by a water dragon from Sasuke crashing into her back. "Oi!"

"You said watch your back!" Sasuke chirped, a grin on his face. She growled, and tackled him off of his feet and into the water, Naruto joining in their watery fun once he got back from where the jutsu had washed him out to sea. Er, ocean.

Kakashi wondered if he should break it up. Nah, let them have their fun. Better than the alternatives. Aka, blowing stuff up, or pestering him. Yes, let them have their fun. They may be shinobi now, but it was good to just have time off to be a kid. Even if he didn't get that, they would. The world wasn't at war for now, and life was good. Until Zabuza came back, but still.

In the end, they all trooped back to the house. Well, Kakashi hobbled, but still. Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto were soaked to the bone, and were still picking out the occasional piece of seaweed from their clothes or hair. Apparently they'd ended up in a kelp patch. On the plus side, they were all worn out, and weren't thinking of any devious plans. Also, they'd brought back fish and a rabbit Kakashi had impaled on the way, so Tsunami would be happy.

She was, and happily cooked up a few of the fish, storing the others and the rabbit in the place they stored meat.

(A/N) Ah, water jutsu, very useful for putting out fires. Alright, so Suiton: Tsunami's Wrath is an Uzumaki made jutsu. Very made for turning the odds in their favor, ne? Also it's good for Kiri shinobi, so they use it, then pull out the Raiton jutsu. Uzumaki are very good at seals afterall, and if they don't have a seal to protect their shinobi from water transmitted Raiton jutsu, there's something wrong with them. Or a lot of things wrong with them. Whatever. I have a pair of polls up in my profile, go vote on my free update spots.