Team 7 was now waiting for our sensei to wake up. We arrived at Tazuna's home a few hours ago. Me and Sasuke both healed any flesh wounds or cuts Kakashi had and replenished his chakra.

It shouldn't take too long for him to wake up. If I remember correctly. We have about a week until Zabuza strikes again. We already met with Tsunami and told Tazuna we can finish his bridge at a faster pace using our shadow clones. When he heard the amount that Naruto could make. He was ever so grateful.

While we were waiting, me and Naruto was playing shogi while Sasuke was reading a book about the human body he bought. I already had it all memorized and so did Sasuke. But he liked going back to re-read the material just so he can make sure he didn't miss anything. Naruto wasn't as good as tactics as me. But he knew how to be tricky when he wanted to be.

Kakashi started stirring from his sleep. Which I turn got all of our attention.

The copy cat ninja opened his eyes to see his students in front of him. "So I take it we are at Tazuna's home?"

"Yeah we carried you here after you passed out. Sakura and I healed your wounds and replenished your chakra." Sasuke told him.

"I see, well I should inform you all that the hunter nin wa-" Kakashi was cut off by Naruto.

Kurama really made Naruto use his clones to study hard. So he was more knowledgeable now. "A fake? We know that already sensei. We all studied how hunter nins are supposed to carry out their assignments. All is required of them is to cut off their target's head and bring it to their village as a bounty. That guy who took Zabuza was his accomplice. Me and Sakura sensed him there the same time we sensed Zabuza." He finished.

"Oh? And why didn't you tell me about that sooner?" Kakashi questioned.

"Because if he wasn't attacking us then we had no reason to attack him. This way we could focus on protecting Tazuna better. We assumed that you were gonna be the one to do something about it once he took Zabuza's body." I answered.

"Oh...well yeah uh anyways Zabuza is still alive. So I'll have to train you guys so you can be better prepared for Zabuza's next attack. I'm sure his partner will be joining this time around." Kakashi said as he stood up.

For some odd reason, even though I knew what he was planning on teaching us. I just hoped that he really wasn't about to waste his and our time doing so. If Kakashi truly tries to teach us tree walking now after everything he saw us do. I mean come on I know he saw all of our speed. Sasuke's skill with his chokuto. Naruto using wind chakra and my enhanced strength. It would be highly disrespectful if he basically chose to ignore that and treat us like regular genin. It already pissed me off in the show that he just now decided to teach his team tree walking during an A-rank mission. But if he does it now...

I look over to see Naruto and Sasuke in their thoughts. If I had to guess they were wondering what Kakashi planned on teaching them. I didn't tell them what he was going to teach us. Only that he was going to start teaching us.

We all went about 5 or 10 minutes away from

Tazuna's house. I recognize the familiar clearing where Kakashi taught team 7 tree walking.

"Ok guys I'm going to teach you all how to climb trees." Kakashi said happily.

...I couldn't even say anything. He really did it. Kakashi really disregarded our growing abilities.

Sasuke didn't know what to say either. He felt his blood boiling. That sentence he just spoke finally set it out. He had enough of Kakashi's bullshit.

"Did..did you just say you were going to teach us tree walking...in the middle of an A-rank mission...when it's clear that we have enough chakra control that we don't need to learn the exercise...are you really disregarded our abilities that you saw in your face for yourself?" Naruto asked a cold tone with his hair shadowing his eyes.

Kakashi could feel the tension. While he really wanted to teach his team tree walking. Something told him that he just said the wrong thing.

"What? I haven't taught you guys tree walking yet. So how would you know if you have good chakra control or not? Your attacks on Zabuza were only flukes. It was because you were all under dire circumstances that those attacks worked. You need more chakra control so you can get a better grasp of what you all did. It wasn't your skills that got me free. It was only luck." Kakashi said.

Kakashi will soon find out those words he just spoke will forever cut off his what little remaining ties his team had with him.

"That's it! I'm done with your bullshit Kakashi! You will not keep putting us down like this. We bust our ass to get to where we are now. With little to no help from you! We saved your ass more than once and you can't even thank us!" Sasuke raged.

I was just as heated. "Luck huh? You know Kakashi I really wanted you to be apart of our family. We all did, we gave you time to try to get close to us on your own accords. Yours always late for our meet up time. You refused to acknowledge us! And you have the nerve to say our skills were only luck?! You can go to hell!"

"Chance after chance after chance we gave you. We've been on your team for over two months and you haven't taught us a single thing besides teamwork exercises. After our d-ranks, instead of training us. You just disappear without a second to spare! We don't need this. I will no longer consider you my sensei. A sensei actually teaches their students. They spend time with their students to get to know them. You chose not to. Because of your refusal to train us. If we hadn't took the initiative on our own ever since we formed this team. It's possible one of us could've really died against Zabuza. And guess whose fault that would've been for not preparing his students? Yours! Honestly my father would be disappointed in you." Naruto looked at Kakashi were red eyes. Those eyes let Kakashi known that they were all truly dead serious. Kakashi felt his heart take a stab when Naruto mentioned his father being disappointed in his. Then he realized.

"Wait..you-"

"Know? Yes I know, we all know. If it wasn't for Sakura I doubt I wouldn't have known for years from now. But that's not important, what's important that we are done with you." Naruto finished as he started to walk away.

"We will be requesting a new Jounin sensei when we get back to the village." Sasuke followed after Naruto.

I just shook my head. "You brought this on yourself Kakashi. We tried to give you chances but you kept ignoring our true selves. I've heard about your former team. They aren't like us Kakashi. We aren't like you and your team. Get that through your head." I followed after my boys.

Kakashi just looked at the ground in shame. Only one thought was going though his head.

'Kami I fucked up bad.' He thought.

LINE BREAK

Me and the boys were walking through the town. It was very different seeing it on a screen than in real life. The town looked terrible. People were homeless and children were starving.

Sasuke sighed. "Looks like we won't have to deal with him anymore after this mission."

"I really wanted him to be with us. He's one of the only connections I have to my dad. But I'm not dealing with his bullshit anymore." Naruto voiced.

"Let's just get through this mission guys, the sooner the bridge and Zabuza is taken care of the better." I said.

"Hey do you guys think we should try to gather some intel on Gatō?" Naruto wondered.

"It's not a bad idea. It's better than having to go back and be around Kakashi. Actually I want to help heal these people too. Let's find an empty building we can use to treat their injuries. But about the intel thing. Naruto make three shadow clones. Have them all henge into good looking women. Send them out to gather information at bars and any other restaurant. People usually talk more when they are drunk." Sakura suggested.

So he did just that. Once his clones left, we found an empty building big enough to hold a decent amount of people.

We started going around offering to heal anybody who need it. Once we said it was for free. People started to come. For that whole day we were all occupied with what you could call our patients.

Luckily not many people had broken bones. For those who did, me and Sasuke had to work together to get the bone to heal somewhat. Most people had flesh wounds or were just really sick. Thankfully we knew how to use medical ninjutsu to heal certain illnesses. Thankfully nobody had anything that was beyond their capabilities. It was good practice for her team. She could see Naruto channeling his medical chakra quicker as he healed more and more people.

By the time we were finally finished. It was passed midnight. Naruto clones also got information on Gatō. Apparently he has two sage houses here. He's in one of them. Naruto's clone was led there. Apparently there are a lot of women being held there against their will.

So we agreed to strike the next night. It shouldn't be difficult for them to clean house since Naruto said his clones didn't sense any chakra signatures. Thankfully she didn't sense Kakashi's chakra signature at Tazuna's house.

The next day was spent with us doing our own training. Naruto sent 30 clones to help out with the bridge. Honestly I was hoping that Sasuke would be able to copy Kakashi's chidori. It's wrong to steal his technique but he owes us something.

Eventually the night came around. We went to the safe house. We all sent in a barrage of clones to sweep out the area. Once we waited some time, we all rushed in. We split up to search all the rooms we could.

I was able to find two rooms full of women being held as slaves. I led them all out of the safe house. I met up with Sasuke, he also found 2 rooms filled with women. Before they went to go find Naruto. Another group of women ran towards them well really towards the door.

That meant that Naruto was able to find a room full of slaves himself.

When the found him, he was sorting through a room that held money and some other valuable looking things.

"Hey guys I'm thinking we should give the money back to the people to help them get back on their feet. Besides Gatō stole it from them anyways. How about we take anything that might interest us ourselves?" Naruto suggested.

"Hmm good idea Naruto. Anything that might be valuable to a shinobi might be useful." I agreed.

"Well guess it won't take long for us to search. I just found a scroll that belongs to my clan. It's for a fire jutsu. It's called bomb blast dance. According to the scroll, it combines the might of the sharingan and fire release. Hmm it's supposed to be some sort of blaze spiral vortex." Sasuke said.

"Ohh I think I've seen Obito used that before in one of my visions. It was really powerful. I think you should learn it Sasuke-kun." I told him.

"Hm alright, let's keep looking." Sasuke replied.

It was our luck that we found a fuinjutsu scroll belonging to the Uzumaki clan. I found a summoning scroll. It was a summoning scroll for lions. Me and the boys had agreed that we should have more than one type of animal to summon. And since it's possible to sign multiple contracts. That's exactly what we are going to do. Naruto ended up finding two wind style jutsu. Wind wall which is a shield of wind that defends against attacks then repels them back at an equal or greater force. Second as air bullets. Sasuke found two water style jutsu's that he gave to me. Water bullet and great waterfall. All in all it was a good search. We sealed everything up.

The next morning we gave away the money to all our the villagers. They were very appreciative towards us for our help. It felt really good helping those in need.

Now we are sitting in a field. We were too tempted to sign the summoning scroll. So that's exactly what we did.

"Sakura-chan mind showing me the seals again?" Naruto asked sheepishly.

"Sure Naruto-kun, but you got to remember the seals so you can summon on your own time." I showed him the boar, dog, bird, monkey and ram hand seals.

"Alright I got it. Thanks Sakura-chan!" Naruto thanked me.

"Just make sure you actually remember them this time dobe." Sasuke teased.

"Yeah yeah I know teme." Naruto agreed.

"Ok so we all signed the scroll. Who is first?" I asked.

"Why not we all try to summon at the same time? Just for the hell of it." Sasuke smirked.

Naruto and me quickly nodded. All three of us stood side by side. We performed the technique. Each having a cloud of smoke arise from their hand on the ground.

3 miniature lions were in front of us. The one in front of Sasuke was black. Naruto's was blue and mine was white.

"Greetings our summoners, it's been a long time since any of our clan was summoned. My name is Jiro, the blue one is Dulio and the black one is Suki." Jiro the white lion introduced them.

"Hey I'm Sakura, to my left and right are my brothers Sasuke and Naruto. It's a pleasure to meet you." I replied.

So we spent the day getting to know our summons. Apparently it's only a few of the lions summons left. Most are the boss summons. Lions have the ability to shrink their size which also lessens the amount of chakra needed to summon them. You could also feed them your chakra to increase the force of their attacks. That was very useful.

Jiro, Dulio and Suki are agreed that they would be our personal lions summons. They also didn't mind us signing more than one contract.

The rest of the week went by. We either trained, helped Tazuna or helped the villagers.

Naruto was able to encounter Haku while walking around. He picked up his chakra signature and instantly recognized it.

Inari was still being a brat. But eventually Naruto yelled some sense into him. I could tell Tsunami was grateful for that. She even agreed to write a report of our mission for us to give the hokage. It was going to be used in case Kakashi decided to leave out any details.

Kakashi stayed out of our way for the most part. Today was the day Zabuza was supposed to show up. We left a few clones back to protect Inari and Tsunami.

The bridge was finished, but when we got there we couldn't see any of the workers who were supposed to be here. That's when a familiar mist came into the air.

"Well well looks like we all meet again." Zabuza spoke up.

"I'll handle Zabuza, you guys handle his partner." Kakashi said before he confronted Zabuza.

Naruto looked at Haku. "Haku do you really wanna do this. Me and my team aren't going to hold back against you."

"I am sure, I am Zabuza-sama's tool. I must defeat you." Haku said.

"But you are just more than a simple tool! You are your own person!" Naruto tried to reason.

"I'm afraid words are pointless Naruto-san. This is the life of being a shinobi." Haku replied.

Naruto sighed. "Yeah it really is." He agreed before putting on serious expression.

Haku made the first attempt trying to charge at us. Sasuke met him half way. He kicked Haku in the stomach sending him flying. I shunshined behind Haku to deliver another kick to his head.

Haku fell to the ground before slowly rising back up. "I see, so I can't take any of you lightly it seems." Haku said as he began creating his crystal ice mirrors.

Man would he be in for a surprise once he sees what I'm about to do to these mirrors.

"This is my kekkai genkai. With my ice release, I can create these mirrors. I'm sorry to say but you have lost." Haku spoke as he merged inside the mirror.

Sasuke activated his sharingan. He looked at me. "Sakura."

"I'm already on it." I made about 20 shadow clones.

"Naruto follow my lead." Sasuke told him.

"Right lets do this." Naruto grinned.

Haku was confused as to what they were plotting. He was caught off guard seeing Sakura's clones jump in the air toward the mirrors.

"It is futile." He said as he tossed some ice senbons to the clones.

Unfortunately for him some of them missed. My clones shattered some of the mirrors with their chakra enhanced fist.

Haku was startled. He didn't expect anybody to be able to crush his mirrors like that. It was at the moment, he knew he lost this battle. But he still had to try. He started traveling through the mirrors at a fast pace. Sasuke saw his every move. Haku sent many ice needles towards them.

Sasuke knew trying to melt the ice was pointless. He doubted his fire was hot enough to do so. They needed to draw him away from the

mirrors.

Naruto seemed to have an idea that he whispered to him and Sakura.

Honestly he figured they might as well try it. So they each substituted themselves with Naruto's exploding clones. With two of them being hanged into Sakura and Sasuke himself.

We were all watching at Haku sent hundred of needles at the clones. I was very grateful that we didn't have to show most of our abilities so far.

Once our clones feel to the ground. Haku made the biggest mistake by walking up towards them. Before he noticed that we were clones instead. It was already too late. The explosion caused from 3 exploding shadow clones blew Haku outside of his mirrors. The boy landed on the ground. Once he stood back up. Naruto gave him a quick 4 piece combo. A punch to the face, a knee to the face which shattered the mask, another punch ending with a kick to the head.

If Haku wasn't hurt from the explosion. I'm positive he could've countered Naruto's third strike. Zabuza didn't say Haku was stronger than him for no reason. It's just that Zabuza is more brutal and has more battle experience.

Haku feel to the ground. He really knew he had lost.

"Please..kill me.." He begged.

I know Naruto couldn't do it. Not that he couldn't take a life. But it's easy to tell that he had an issue with taking Haku's himself. So I took out a kunai and channeled chakra into it.

"Naruto?" I asked him.

The blond nodded with a sad expression. "Just do it Sakura-chan. I know that I can't this time."

Sasuke wrapped his arm around Naruto. I nodded at my beloved younger brother. I slammed the kunai is Haku's heart. It's weird how chakra can easily slice through the human body.

I sighed. "Well that's one out of the way. Good job boys now we have to wait for Kakashi to finish up."

Speaking on him, I heard that familiar chirping of birds. I turned around to see Kakashi using chidori. Sasuke was already copying it with his sharingan. The rasengan is stronger. But chidori is useful to have too. Especially with how Sasuke develops it.

Naruto was staring in awe of the technique. He knew he wouldn't be able to do the chidori. But that didn't mean it wasn't amazing to see in action.

Kakashi was about to go for the kill. But he stopped once he heard Gatō started speaking.

Well you know how Gatō betrayed Zabuza because he didn't want to pay him.

I looked over to my boys. We decided how should we handle this.

"Hey Zabuza!" Naruto called out.

The missing nin looked at us. "What is it?"

"Let us handle those bums while you get Gatō's head. These idiots either raped or tried to rape the women they held captive." Naruto said.

"Fine just leave Gatō for me." Zabuza agreed.

Me, Naruto and Sasuke stood side by side. It was time for a collaboration technique. Me and Sasuke quickly performed the fire ball jutsu while Naruto used his great breakthrough to enhance the intensity of our flames.

The attack was a success. Everybody accept Gatō was killed. Seriously I was truly thankful for Kurama making us get used to the act of killing. While I didn't like it. It didn't bother me as much as he would have. Knowing I'm a shinobi, I can't hesitate to take a life if the situation calls for it. Hesitation gets you killed in battle.

Zabuza ran toward Gatō who looked like he was looking at the devil himself. Zabuza cut through Gatō like a piece of paper. The man feel into the lake. Naruto used his great breakthrough again only this time to blow away to burnt bodies laying on the bridge.

"Oi you brats, since it seems you are the ones calling the shots. I want to come back to Konoha and live a life not on the run. It's what Haku wanted. And don't think I blame you for killing him. Shit happens when you are a shinobi. I want to live the life Haku wanted for us. If that means I have to be a Konoha dog then so be it. Plus I want to teach the Uchiha brat more about kenjutsu." Zabuza told us as he was walking up to us.

"I see no issues with that." Sasuke smirked.

I rolled my eyes while Naruto smacked Sasuke on the head. "Idiot of course you don't. We can't just walk in with him without anbu being alerted."

"What if I willingly be detained. I'll plead my own case. As long as they question me and make sure I'm not out to get Konoha. I'm sure I'll be fine." Zabuza figured.

"If you say so just make sure you aren't seen until we get a good distance away from here tomorrow." I said.

"Got it pinky." He left before the villagers showed up.

We were praised throughout the whole village. We raised the other safe house. Freed all the slaves and gave the people the money Gatō took from them.

We convinced Tsunami to take over Gatō's business. The next morning we all made our way back home. The people were sad to see us go. But we had upcoming exams to prepare for.

If I had to guess we had two and a half months until the exams start. While I had no doubt that we would be ready. We needed to make sure are prepared enough to handle Gaara and hold off Orochimaru for a bit.

Not that I was complaining, I enjoyed my new life very much and I wouldn't change it for anything. The chunin exams will only serve to fill the void that's already being filled. This will be the first major turning point. People will die but their deaths in the long run will not be for nothing.

A/N: Sorry if this chapter seems real short to you guys. I want to start focusing on the chunin exams and other future events. Honestly I was tempted to skip the wave arc at first. But it ended up being needed for what I have in store. Oh if any of you are hoping they forgive Kakashi. It won't be for awhile. Naruto, Sakura (OC) and Sasuke really didn't like the way he's been treating them. They've had enough of it so they decided they could do without him.